Living for Death

Living for Death

By Christina Esser 

They live their lives focused on eternity,

On transcending into a better world.

They incessantly seek what isn’t here, but there

Like a fish in water, gasping for air.

A prescient vision of what-ifs drives fear

As if the end is always near.

When they live in the future by means of dread,

They live an illusion of life, when in reality—

They’ve been dead.