I Am Death

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In the fullness of time, sleepwalking death at thy soul's door

Woken to life by a touch of the horrors of deeds

Death I am, that which thou lived in fear of but thy life has long awaited in love

Punctually present to take thy life's hand in marriage

Under that breath of thine I consume, I taste futile words of plea

If my words had a voice, thine ears would be deafened

Thy comprehension of life departed hurriedly, so did the mind

O deceased angels, drops of poison did plunge into the lake of thine angels

Though the days grew old with thee, never have you grown wiser

Thy soul was a ghost thou believed not in, but you did in the myths of comfort

What empyrean silence heard of thee shall lay alongside the steady silence of thy tomb.

Borrowed self shall sleep in death now unto life do thee part.

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