DEATH BY DEATH

                      It is obvious there are many ways to die, just as there are many ways to be born. The former exceeds the latter, if only by minutes or perhaps a century.
                      There was the Pharaoh who did not outlive his infancy and still was buried with all the honors as though he had transcended time.
                       In the modern theater, they did not embalm Hitler, although Lenin still lives, somehow, in the Kremlin square.  It's almost Egyptian!
                       Monuments of death have been enshrined in statues, memorials and high towers. The bronze and marble proclaim their existence and their deaths were, at best, superficial.
                      That was all recorded on the planet earth, a mere blip in the universe; but there remained the definition of life and death.
                      It was disregarded in atrocious wars, which killed countless numbers, over wide planes, from Persia to Greece. Therein lied the death; but what was life all about?
                      Life? Well, that was progress and change. It was all scientific and this allowed the human element to live in relative leisure. Nonetheless, there was a price to pay.
                     It allowed for new weapons of mass destruction to be made as science progressed, without the need of the human element. In other words it was all computerized.
                    So far so good. What seemed to slip through the minds of the existing souls, who unknowingly remained captive to a robot, was a haunting reply: What if death is caused by death?
                     That was the refrain and of course the Raven by Poe came into play. Some actually explained that Poe was actually predicting the Third World War, while others had said that Whitman had done it before him.
                     They were all in tweeds while they remained on their knees, for there was something else out there, which their knowledge could not explain.
                     All the scientists agreed that there could b nothing done against an attack from outer space. We were only meek peddlers of primitive armaments; without garments of protection. Still, the armament business was excellent. Life seemed to disintegrate before it began.
                    There was an intervening light, which was like no other. The other planets did not come to the assistance of the blip in the universe.
                     It was later explained by the conquering planets, that the planet earth died: Death by Death.