DEATH Poem: Feeling Death / feeling like it by Katherine Preza Leonor

there’s a difference between feeling death and feeling like death.

feeling death requires your lungs failing to inflate,
feeling death must mean your blood terminating
its circulation in your veins and arteries like a carousel.
feeling death is its old, clammy hands on your back
and its rancid breath fanning your cheek.

feeling like death is entirely different.
This is obvious to anyone with a brain.
feeling like death is having blood splattered on your shirt,
a white shirt, in the middle of nowhere,
and having that once clammy hand holding yours like a
parent does a child to cross the street.

feeling like death requires looking down at bodies as they squirm,
and scream, and beg you not to play god.

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