Death, be my Friend
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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