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# The Age of Death
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-age-of-death/
- Published: 2022-03-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: the age of death arrived, so stealthy and suddenly I'm losing friends some were just getting by, some wealthy their means don't justify their ends some go away unseen, discreetly I find them written up, so sweetly on...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

the age of death arrived, so stealthy  
and suddenly I'm losing friends  
some were just getting by, some wealthy  
their means don't justify their ends  
some go away unseen, discreetly  
I find them written up, so sweetly  
on social media, with love  
some struck by lightning from above  
I fear it, though the fear's receding  
and resignation's setting in  
obsessing about "might have been"  
debating with myself, succeeding  
deciding that I matter still  
and so go on, by force of will