What is life if it's death?

Did they know that it was going to be the end?
Did they hope that it will mend and not end?
How does it feel to be alive one minute,
And the next minute burn in death?

Did you see how they held onto their oxygen masks?
They hoped it was just turbulence as usual.
Different lives headed for different destinations,
Yet they ended up in afterlife, never achieving all their tasks.

What is life?
If you are alive one minute, full of it,
Yet on the brink of death the next.
What is life?
If you get to the point where you watch it flash before you,
And you know for certain, it's the end.
What is life?
If you never know which day and which way,
It will leave you.

Is it fate?
Is it destiny?
Is it mere bad luck?
What is life for those alive,
If those dead left a chasm?

What is life if it's death?

VICTORIA UKPAKA