What is death

What is death we always ask? Is it something
to be feared or is it something to be embraced
when we are finished with this human race.
Is death nothing more than the passing of time
or the passing of one body to another.
Why is it that death is on our mind more than
anything else. Why do we fear it?
Is it because it is the fear of the unknown,
that we do not understand that makes us fear
death?
Or is it that we cling to this life so hard
that we don't want to let go? We say life is
short but death is forever. Is that true?
No one has ever come back from the dead to
tell us. Are we reborn again after we die?
Some say yes and some nay and lets just
leave it that way.
But death is not to be feared for I have
touched and seen and been held in its
embrace, and I am still here in this human
race.
Death is a sweet slip of time that we keep,
for in it we can find peace.
No more worry, and no more pain. Just the slip
from this life into the next.
Death really is a friend who has a sad job of
taken us from loved ones and friends and the life
we must leave behind. Death is going where others
have already gone.
Death is knowing that when you leave this life
you will not be alone, for others await you. Death
is not to be feared, but met with pride for it is
a journey to the other side.