death
you have stolen joy
and spent the change in her pockets
that you ripped from her body
after using her for a fortnight and a day.

death, you are too cruel.
i would treat you with respect,
if it lessened her pain.

death, why do you distort love
death, why do you take us away from our families and then destroy our memorials, destroy our families
you have become a monster,
were you always a monster and they just didn't notice

death, i have no words to rebuke you
instead i have too many, too few emotions
everything is clouded and
you have broken the wind's path
that might've cleared away our pain

death, i am stagnating
i am withering and you are proud of my degenerate state
you strip humanity, leave it raw and naked
no safety, for you are all endings
and you are the cruelest, not the kindest ending