Everyone wants to know about people's last words

Not me though

I want to know last thoughts

I think it would be intriguing to know

Or to even just think about

When people die do they know that they're about to?

Do they have even an inkling of what happens next?

Do they have a sudden rush of regret?

Of resentment?

Of happiness?

Of peace?

Do they suddenly want to celebrate their life?

When people know when they die before they do

Do they grieve themselves?

Or do they grieve the world?

Do they regret all of the things they should have done?

Or do they regret all that they should not have done?

Do they grieve themselves?

Do they not believe it at first?

Do they think that the universe is playing tricks on them?

Or are they just in shock, not knowing how to proceed?

Or does the seriousness set in?

Does everything lose its humor?

The laughter being sucked out of the world all at once?

Or do they want revenge?

Revenge on the world

On the people around them

On their own past

On the future that they will now never have

Or on the different endings they could have had for their stories

Even though no one can ever truly know

When they are set to die

When their internal clock stops ticking

When their final grain of sand falls

We can't help ourselves

People contemplate their mortality endlessly

In all different ways

Dark thoughts

Hyperfixations

Obsessions

Or my personal favorite: questions

Questions like:

What does it feel like?

What happens after we die?

Should we mourn our birthdays instead of celebrating them?

All of these run through peoples' brains

For most people they try to answer these with religion

Having different answers based in who's being asked

But, truth is

No one truly knows until the darkness truly sets in