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My Friend Death
April 18, 2014
Death is an ever present shadow hanging over all of us.
Over my friends and I as we rejoice in our youth.
Over the elders as I sit at their feet and listen to their tales.
Over me while I sing in the glen.
Death comes for us all.
Death is what all creatures everywhere have in common.
Death waits patiently to take us home.
© Karen S., Norwalk, CT
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PirateCountry DIAMOND said...
on Dec. 11 2014 at 10:31 am
I like the end where you wrote about death coming to take us home. It makes the whole thing sound not so...doom-ish. Nice job with this!
All at once all my elderly friends died and my father bought a gun to put sick animals down. Death. I became so familiar with it I called it a friend. Like the neighbor who's house you pass and wave at them while they sit on the porch.