A Love Letter to Death
A 'Loss, Memory, and Mortality' Seminar Exercise
I have long known you,
heard you described as a thief,
a robber who comes
in the night.
Snatching life while we are unaware,
taking the young without reason,
the old without warning.
It was the men in black
who made me fear you,
another way to assert
their control over me
in the never-ending tussle
for my soul.
But as I slipped their grasp
and came to understand you
better,
I came to know you as
just an angel doing his job.
About the Creator
David Muñoz
I'm a recovering artist in Austin, Texas. Stoic student, mystic, writer, poet, guitarist, father, brother, son, friend. I am an eternal soul living a human experience. Part of that experience is working through my stuff by making art.
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When We Were Very Young
In another box set that my parents got me when I was younger contained four books by A.A. Milne. 'When We Were Very Young' is a collection of poems that Milne wrote for his son Christopher Robin. This is a book that is full of references to Mr. Edward Bear, but a lot of the poems give some various descriptions of life of a very young child and where, when, how and why they do what they do. The illustrations are quite cute for you can see what Christopher Robin is and may be thinking. Also, Pooh Bear does make his self-known at various points. I have read these verses many, many times over the years and each time make me feel good about myself.
By Mark Graham6 days ago in Critique
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