Death, be my Friend

Cherry

By maudsy

Tue, 14 Jan 2014
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Death, be my friend

Although we’ve never spoken

Come quickly as I end

Embrace the body broken

I’ve seen the sallow plastic skin

Draped across these skeletons

Their hollow mouths, their wakeless eyes

Limbs of tired automatons

Death, do not let me be

Please be a friend to me

 

 

Death, be my friend

Don’t let me be dependant

On Life’s linguini lines

And a white-coated attendant

Those drips of extra seconds

Pour though unwilling veins

At visiting time, no chocolates

Just slice away those trains

Death, don’t abandon me

Please be a friend to me

 

 

Death, be my friend

And switch the TV off

My batteries are spent

I have nothing but this cough

There were others once, I knew

In a corridor of names

But behind a quiet door

They exist alone in frames

Death, please remember me

Please be a friend to me

 

 

Death, be my friend

An aneurism would suffice

Let dark ingest the light

And expire me in a trice

To linger on and witness

Each wince from itchy kin

Would be tantamount to Hades

Let me drop, don’t let me spin

Death, sing lullabies to me

Please be a friend to me
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