Quick to Dead [Couplets]

I gasp in my last minute living loud,
I'd dreamt of being carried on a cloud.
But,
My body 's too heavy, my mind too light,
and nothing remains once I'm failed by sight.

Just a pile of death stacked before the door,
as carrion feeders squawk out for more.

In eternal darkness, that endless void,
I was once created, & now once destroyed. 

Alone in a Crowd [Couplets]

He sits alone. His barstool straight,
it faces forward - not askew.

The room is full, the music loud.
He stares through his half-empty brew.

He's oblivious to all else --
all alone in the human zoo.