Scientists say the human heart will beat
only a finite number of times.
A writer has only a finite number
of words.
How many words will a writer get down
in their life?
Will we know when the last words fall
from our pen?
Will we know when those two words
The End are upon us?
Will we be devastated
at being unable to complete
that last story
that final stanza,
that we leave the final composition
unfinished?