DEATH

He appeared as if from nowhere 

This creature neither man nor animal 

To take what he had been told to take 

No one to be favoured peasant or royal

The woman was praying, her eyes were closed 

She appeared calm, but her heart raced 

The waves of pain shot through her body 

Beads of perspiration appeared on her face

Maybe her time had come 

The pain in her heart seemed to tell her so 

What would her eyes see? 

If only she opened them she would know

A slight breeze blew in her face 

As she opened her pained eyes 

You have come to take me? 

Will you let me say my byes?

There was silence in that room 

Save her moans of pain 

Its hand reached out and touched her hand 

Her life out of her seemed to drain

So this is death 

This is the end of my life 

As hand in hand she walked 

Into the afterlife

She looked behind at her body 

Lying so lifeless on the floor 

The pain was gone now 

She was to suffer no more

The creature still held her hand 

But walk they did not 

In seconds they covered distances 

And plains she knew not

Her life she had lived it well 

No soul she would hurt no lies she did tell 

This journey she hoped would end 

In heaven and not in hell