The Triumph of Life (poem)

The Triumph of Life

“Death, thou shalt die.” — John Donne

When this world floats dead,
not a microbe left to twitch—
the last creature’s skin
worn by wind to dermal dust—
Earth will be the corpse
of all our corpses. No one
will mourn, remember,
or be haunted. In our deaths,
even ghosts will die.

— Bryant Jacobi
10/27/25

Halloween Day 27