Deserter

In memento mori we
Show the inevitable
Loss of life to death weirdly

By symbolizing the loss
With an item that remains,
A skull. You, at the moment,

Unless you are a machine,
Which you may well be, reside
Mostly in and always with

A skull. Memento mori,
The skull that’s been abandoned
To being by awareness,

Has to stand in for the loss
Of you who abandoned it.