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Three Deaths
by Angela Yuriko Smith
First Death comes…
tender unfolding halts
With sudden realization
that forever eventually
finishes and youth
is a trick of mirrors.
First Death sits
on your shoulder
for a a lifespan
foreshadowing.
Second Death comes…
ebbing pulse fades, singing
a lullaby of goodbye
as papery skin peels away
with a sudden realization
that it’s time for new luggage
to visit new horizons.
Second Death sits
at your empty place
filling the space
with a lack of you.
Third Death comes…
the last time your name
is spoken, words vanishing
in empty air, you evaporating
with them. Nothingness
falls over what was you.
Third Death sits
between the minutes
it takes to be unremembered
as your name is exhaled
from the last lips to ever
speak it.
Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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Sublime, evocative and fantastic.
Very nice. I particularly love that last stanza