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When Death Came for Her
by Terrie Leigh Relf

She longed to look Death in the eyes,
to catch just a glimpse of the other side.
Gazing upward at the darkening skies,
could life be a realm she couldn’t abide?

To catch just a glimpse of the other side,
she offered Death a compromise:
“If life is a realm I can no longer abide,
could we co-exist before my demise?”

She offered Death a compromise,
to embody her, their love glorified.
“Did we co-exist before my demise?
I often would that it had been otherwise . . .”

He embodied her, their love glorified!
Gazing upward at the darkened skies,
“Did we co-exist before my demise?”
At last Death looked into her eyes.

Fiction © Copyright Terrie Leigh Relf
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

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