Too Mortal Coil

I am going to die

You are too

Nothing new
but eternally true

So why do we deny
that this demanding life
is but an exam
which proceeds
our death sentence?

Best heed
the mournful laments
of the spirit collective
now haunting our timeline
and not waste
a moment 
of this time we were gifted
before it permanently
expires unfulfilled
and unjustified