08-05-2020, 01:07 AM
By "esteem" I meant to die “with respect” as in “without fear”. I was thinking of using the word “content” as in being content with death but I could not decide. Let me tell you what I was going for and see if you can help me. I was trying to deal with overcoming the fear of death in this poem.
A while ago I was discussing my extreme fear of death with my therapist one day and she asked me to think about people suffering from terminal cancer and how much pain and suffering they must be in and what a relief the finality of death must be in that case so they don’t actually fear it, rather they welcome it. It got me thinking of other instances where death is welcome like if I was in a car wreck or plane crash and was mangled and wanted to die. So it kind of helped me in a way. So I wanted to write a poem about it and wanted to use the image of the squirrel and how it welcomed death in this situation. Then I wanted to comment on it and if only humans could feel this way as well then they wouldn’t have to fear death.
A while ago I was discussing my extreme fear of death with my therapist one day and she asked me to think about people suffering from terminal cancer and how much pain and suffering they must be in and what a relief the finality of death must be in that case so they don’t actually fear it, rather they welcome it. It got me thinking of other instances where death is welcome like if I was in a car wreck or plane crash and was mangled and wanted to die. So it kind of helped me in a way. So I wanted to write a poem about it and wanted to use the image of the squirrel and how it welcomed death in this situation. Then I wanted to comment on it and if only humans could feel this way as well then they wouldn’t have to fear death.