POMP

You're gonna fall.

You're gonna die.

You're gonna end like none have ended before you

swiftly

silently

superficially.

You will be crushed under the weight

of your own history

and no one else will know

no one else will feel the loss

that you would weep bitterly over

had you only lived

had you only made it

had you only NOT turned around

NOT bought that farm

NOT seen it fall

like you

and all of them

who will die

that day

at Pompeii.