To Death

Death you are my secret wish.

You came and took away my heart.

Now I can long only to come to you.

I chose to love life,

but she is an unfaithful love.

She torments me at every turn, for she knows that I must cling to her.

I may not court you openly,

I can only wait patiently for you to notice me.

Life gave me a Love,

who swore to hold me into the gray.

She then turned his eyes to another,

and left my wounded heart to bleed.

Life brought me friends,

to share my trek upon her road.

She handed them the stones,

with which they crushed my battered heart.

Life gave me a son,

his green eyes shone full of her light.

Then she stole him from my arms, and gave him to you, Death.

So now I walk on my journey,

with only the beat left of my heart. For my heart is with you,

it is you Death that I travel to meet.