DEATH Poem: A Shoulder To Cry On, by Rafael Jacobs-Perez

What if death
The gentleman caller
The arc angel
Is not the one
That brings us
To whatever is next
But is the one
Who saves us
Who brings us back
From those moments
The ones you read about
Or see on the news
When someone
Sees the light
Feels the darkness
Closing in on them
But comes back
What if death is
The hero of the story
Tirelessly running around
Giving people the heimlich maneuver
Making us look both ways
Before we cross the street
What if death is just
Late, alot
With so many lives to save
What if he just can’t
Get to everyone on time
So he’s left watching tragedies
He knows he could have stopped
A superhero whose spidey senses
Are just overwhelmed
So when we lose someone
We are never alone
In our mourning of a life gone to soon
Not alone in all of the what ifs
Death is there
Standing next to us
Thinking the same thing

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