Mortui Prosumus Vitae

(Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons)

For society and kin 

I will live

And for science

I will shut down.

I yearn for their company 

Those in the realm of science

Upon bidding farewell

To this society I adore.

I want to be buried

Inside the lab freezers

And spend eternity

Or some few days

Beside ladies and gentlemen

In those white coats

Gloves and gas masks.

There is a time

My blood vessels

Will convey a concoction

Of embalming agents

And this body

Defiled

By the cataclysms of Being

Will be littered with dissections.

I want to live on

Beside scientists

Inside a serene lab.

Sons and daughters of society

Will need to use me

To know how to take care

Of those still in existence

Instead of ants, bacteria

And fungi

Colonizing my essence.

I’m not certain

If I should live

Inside this lab

As my dining room

With the freezer as my bedroom

For eternity

Or if my closest

Will get me back

In potassium oxide dust.

But I’ll get to know

As the clock ticks.

All I loathe

Is to hear the men in suits

And machete-like ties

Insulting and threatening

Those they call evil

Like people of my sort.

O dear kin

If I die today

Hand me over

To the men in white coats

For in death

We still serve

Those whose hearts still throb.

© Sea-Crab Poetry.

(Voyager of Words)

About This Poem

I understand that cultural values are so strong and extremely difficulty to shun. However, science has already become our culture– the medical technology, smartphones, machines, computers and so on, have all been bestowed upon us by science. Science has given us so much and is indeed responsible for the very chemical reactions that sparked our abode and forms of life.

Recommended for You– LEGACY: A Collection of Poetry and Prose by Jeffrey Marc Winkelman

This wonderful book is a depiction of some of those controversial issues of society that we know and sheds light on new perspectives about them.

GET YOUR COPY 

ABOUT ME