An Address to Death

Dear Death,

Why, Death, do you linger around my life?

First, you take a childhood friend and leave me torn to pieces.

Second, you take another friendly face by her own hand.

Now, you hang over the most significant person in my whole existence.

Now, you threaten to take away the very woman who taught me most of what I know.

You have been floating around our lives for almost a year now.

Why, Death, are you so cruel to attempt to take her too?

Who, Death, do you plan to terrorize and take next?

The cruelest of all is you hanging back, as if we are prey.

But at the end of the day, your cruelty’s effect wears and fades.

At the end of the day, Life triumphs over you.