ARE YOU DEAD? : SONNET 175

Are You Dead?

Sonnet 175

"Are you dead?" -- soon you will get a call,

If you are old and living all alone;

The question, hard though on the ear does fall,

Will be imploring you, in its each tone,

To answer you are wholly alive and kicking, 

And if you don't, there will be a hearse

At your door from the inside in latching,

And open they will break the door, your daughters 

And sons, and carry your decaying body

To a cremation ground where it will burn

To ashes, your