To start with, how about a nice poem about death? Welcome to my blog!
Death
Who are you that challenges me?
Know you, whom you defy?
None are delivered from me,
Doubt not our acquaintance!
I am neither friend nor enemy.
Praise me, curse me, all is irrelevant.
No wealth, nor poverty dissuades me,
You are all
equal in my court!
I am eager
for our embrace,
Lurking
forever over your shoulder.
Observing
as your thread unrolls,
Always I am
a near companion.
Only that which is eternal endures past me.
To God alone do I answer,
And all of Creation dreads my power!
Even the Son of Man felt my touch, if briefly.
I am terrifying to behold,
The end product of all wrong.
Yet in truth I am less final than imagined,
For I am only a messenger.
Just as you are delivered to me,
As soon as I have grasped you,
I must turn you over to another.
No sooner are we acquainted, we part.
Yet one day I myself shall suffer,
The same fate that I inflict on others.
Though I am nearly absolute, nearly eternal,
divine mercy seals my fate.
divine mercy seals my fate.
