I am death and I welcome you with a kiss
And gently hold your hand as you drift off into bliss.
Do not fear me as I welcome one and all
At the end of all your days, at the end of your summer ball.
I am death, I am everywhere round about
I welcome you in silence not even with a shout.
I have been waiting for you all your life long
To meet you and greet you with my song.
I am death; I am not to be feared with dread
I know when to call you, when everything has been said.
Though I may take you by surprise in an unexpected way,
I will take your hand gently in the twilight of your day.
Like it, it's something a lot of people don't like to talk about. My only worry is, will it take me up or will it take me down. A great poem.
unavoidable beauty once acquired keep within never tell to anybody Mr David topic of choice is mine too beautiful
I like how death is both fearful and a friend at the end, and how you seem to have captured that idea in this one.
Death is merely the recycler of life... A very nice poem, I really like it...
Excellent David, I am an ex Funeral director and have alot of understand with death and dying. Really beautiful and one to save.
None of us know what death is like - for some it seems peaceful, with a kiss, but for others there is much suffering. Well written poem David, flows beautifully with good rhyming.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Death comes as an unexpected visitor! (A friend or a fiend, we do not know! Everything depends on how we look upon it) A poem stirring up deep reflections in the mind! !