Last Smile

I was always good at ignoring inconvenient truths And the obvious I missed altogether. I always saw the whole truth, but sometimes not for years. I know now when I breathe my last, And they lay two shiny coins on my eyelids, And pay that man to come take away my body, I will be wearing a smile. Because at the very last moment of life, I will no longer be able to delude myself About what was important and what didn't matter; Or what was real and what was a fiction, When suddenly all things will reveal either the truth or the lie- But I will also know that none of it can matter to me, ever again; And I will just have to smile, in my newfound wisdom- Just once; knowing there were never really any winners or losers At this once-upon-a-time game, called life.