Catacombs

Delving further,
blue-jeaned, and apocryphal,
suburban Dantes,
realizing they missed the
collective best (collective) years
of their lives.
The psychological study of death,
and dying.
(It's called thanatology.)
We lacked the time, incidentally.
And occidental, pacing forward
and have never
a thought to finish.
It is so important to have goals
and maybe not ideal
but practical
if they are but distance.