Dying Young

"How shall the burial rite be read?

The solemn song be sung?

The requiem for the loveliest dead,

That ever died so young?"

-Edgar Allan Poe-

The other night, I went to watch Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet again for the nth time (I saw this film when I was around 4 or 5 years old).

I remember how this movie made me wish to die as young as Juliet. 

I don't know, it's not the fear of growing old,

but I can't seem to see myself as someone dying of old age.

 When I was a child,

I would nicely comb my hair & then lie down on my bed,

imagining myself as Juliet while she was being carried at the Capulet's tomb,

Aurora while sleeping at their castle's tower,

or Snow White in her crystal coffin the seven dwarfs made for her.

I may sound weird, but those who die young has the sympathy & woe of many. If you die young, it doesn't matter who you are or what you have achieved, people will still cry for what they believe as an untimely demise.