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D&S-Final Litany

Everyone thinks there's something.

Everyone believes that the gods know them personally,

sympathies with them on a minuscule level.

 

I like to pull people out from there delusions

as I reap them out from this world

making sure to let them know

 

if there are gods they’re not going to save you.

 

I have the power to take you in any fashion,

your name was marked and so you go

 

I never know who goes where and honestly I don’t care.

 

Those at peace melt away

like liquid sugar on the tongue

they are absorbed into the air

sinking like honey into bread,

 

and others that fight me

shatter like glass.

They're ground into nonexistance,

 

Poor ********

 

I cry a silent cry of anguish

I'm never relieved through tears.

Instead the agony drops into my heart

forming an ocean vast.

 

Too vast.

 

The struggle against suffering is for the healthy,

and those who dive into that pool let themselves drown,

swallowing pain,

memories,

and disappointment

until their lungs are too full.

 

When they open their mouths

sending out their final battle cry against life

their own voice is strewn with the voices of many,

the voice of all others before them who have chosen this path of destruction.

 

Only the first to enter had the privilege

to let their voice be heard in that last and final scream

as they sank down into the darkness

lost forever from life

and even eluding me.

 

They were in a place where no man wishes to go,

where fate has no hold

and death and life quiver before the decimation

that awaits the two biggest killers of mankind.

 

All are accepted into that bleak and glorious place,

and those who do not

receive their penance

while others are forced through their own will

to take upon themselves the responsibility

to inflict horrors to their body,

spirit and soul.

 

Those who start on their own path of death

with his assistance

experience something much worse

than what I would have devised for you,

 

we are ourselves the worst of enemies.

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Written by
kimberly-brown
Jamaican
Published
Jun 26, 2013
Lines·Words
54·346
Notes

Death now thinks back. He isnt finished in his work, but there are times when he broods, its in his nature.

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