DEATH
I woke up to a nightmare,
All I could do was stare into space.
I am awake, but I still feel my spirit falling asleep.
I never imagined this day would come, a time
when I’d call you, and the warmth of your laughter would be nowhere
to be found.

I’ve tried to understand it, but the more I try, the more pain I feel
The more my heart and head begin to ache.
Death has been swallowed up in victory the Lord’s word says
Yet, I sometimes doubt. Oh, Lord, forgive me.
I sometimes seek answers to questions like; why?
Why did you have to leave now before reaping the fruit of your labor?

Death o death thy sting is monstrous.
It did leave a mark, one that can never be so easily forgotten.
I shiver in my sleep in fear of the unknown.
If a man, O so noble and lovable, could pass on
Who, then, am I? I am no better than he

Imagine using a straw to sip a drink slowly slowly
till it is no more.
That is how death sucks the lives out of both the good and the bad.
A respecter of person, death is not.
Demise becomes a problem when it hovers around the ones I love and
steals them from right under my nose.
I like to think death isn’t always natural.
Forces who despise one’s progress could also have a hand in it.

Suddenly, I fall into a trance. There I see a lamb.
The lamb who took away the sins of the world,
that we may have life in abundance.
He looks me in the eye and says, “eternity is the end goal.”
Somehow it made sense to me, and I felt a calm feeling come over me.
Now I see death has no power over me.

I have learned to rejoice amid my pain
I do not weep as one who has no hope, for I know he is in a better place
and my new dawn has come.
Though I am not strong now, I go to bed, and all I see is your face.
Nevertheless, I choose to remain a fighter for you.
Though you sleep, you will forever be alive in me.
Death, I laugh at your charades.
My creator makes the difference

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