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Death’s corner- Poem

Updated: Feb 5, 2023

Death beckoned for me in the corner,

silhouetted in shadowy mystery,

blowing me bared-teeth kisses—

All the warmth of a friend,

the decadence of a lover,

and the intensity of a viper just before it 

embraces a mouse. 

 

A kiss so cosmic it could send 

me to the stars;

The promise of relief,

the permanence of an end, 

the threat of the unknown. 

I hold him off, 

keep him at arm’s length.

I tell him to wait.

That I am worth the wait.

But I don’t know how much 

longer I can keep telling him, “no.”

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