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Death impersonated pays you a visit. How do you greet him/her? Poetry or prose, 100 words max. Tag me.
Cover image for post Stumped, by Patrickfull
Patrickfull in Poetry & Free Verse

Stumped

"Why? Why, when chained, does a wounded animal still cry out?"

"I do not know."

And although Death knows all

Death knows not

"Why does man flee fate?

Why does heart love pain?

Why does survival beat all other instinct?

Futility of life is the true fear of humanity,

So like many before

I ran from that which haunted me."

"I see."

"You see not which is the reason why."