free verse: Birth and dying

Introduction: Life is the what we do between two processes, birth and dying.

Birth is not living.
Birth is the mystery that animates.
Living is temporary awareness.

Dying is not death. 
Dying is the mystery that kills.
Death is permanent sleep.

cinquain: God of war and mass extinction

Introduction: Take only peace to Mars, the Roman god of war.

On Mars,
if we get there,
let's promise, in advance,
to leave nuclear weapons here,
on Earth.