Death's Question

• Artist: Verouche
• Description: Death comes to visit a man who has lost everything. I shall also add the "Man's Reply."
• Date: 01/24/2010
• Tags: deaths question

I offer to you this kiss of death
out on this lonely road.
You may breathe your final breath
at the end of this reaper's ode.

It is winter and everything's cold
ice creeps into your veins.
In all the stories you've been told
I help to end your pains.

But how do you know
that they will end
out here upon the snow?
How do you know that I will send
you up and not down below?

Anger, destruction, hatred, and sadness;
Hell is this and more.
You lie there writhing in your madness
down to your very core.

Knowing this make your decision
to continue living or to die.
Before you make that first incision
Are you certain you don't want to try?

Comments

[AngelLovePM]

I really like how the concept of giving a second thought before choosing suicide is within this poem.

Its the seed of wishing to try in life because of hope that keep many people living during times of despair.

[Fille aux Cheveux de Lin]

Pretty good, could use some editing here and there.

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