Sunday, November 8, 2015

Stranger's Funeral

What is a life of a man not known?
     How tormented a feeling
           Fleeting and fearing
             Wonder and horror untold?

What life is a breath on still lips?
       Cold, motionless, frozen
           A smile forever untaken
              A kiss to the shadows
                 Taste of the unknown?

What is sorrow when not truly felt?
      Is it empty and fraudulent
         Well thought and not executed
              Softly spoken and not received?

What is life when death's door passes over?
       Is it scary in its darkness
          Warm with its smothering embrace
              Or neither in its ineptitude?

How still one must lie, how softly we speak
   When staring a death's eye and shedding a tear
      For a person so close and sometimes so far
         The end is coming fast.

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