catch me if you can, death

i'll run,

she says, head back laughing

i'm strong, and guess what?

i'm young!

i'm too young to die

so there, death.

but what she doesn't see

is the cancer eroding her bones and mutating through her body

and she's not going to catch it in time

so she lives her life.

she does all the things she thinks she has time for

because she thinks she still has years to settle down and act serious

so she doesn't learn to play the piano

she doesn't go to church with her mom

she forgets about God

she doesn't climb everest

or go skydiving

or enjoy the people and the beauty of living

instead, she enjoys stupidity

and bad habits she can't break

and a messy room, and a bad attitude, and a phone addiction

and deathscrolling on tiktok

and she lives out her last six months

and death, it finally catches her

and she don't stand a chance