DEATH

Death is before me today:
Like the recovery of a sick man,
Like going forth into a garden after a sickness.

Death is before me today:
Like the odor of myrrh,
Like sitting under a sail in a good wind.

Death is before me today:
Like the course of a stream,
Like the return of a man from the war-galley to his house.

Death is before me today:
Like the home that a man longs to see,
After years spent as a captive.

Death is before me today:
like drowning in a frozen nameless sea
like painting love red with my own blood

Death is before me today:
like gone after you called me love
like hiding away before you killing me
so i killed myself

Death is before me today:
like drifting in blindness vain

Death is before me today:
like living while you're dying
like taking pills and not knowing when to stop

Death is before me today:
Like a life that filled with emptiness,
Not knowing whether you're alive or not.

Death is before me today:
like flying with an angel in silent
like crying in a remote place without you


Death is before us today.
Bennos, Kevin, Maya, Nissa.

12.05.09