death - Blackout Poetry Notes

A Death Americanized

Barren
and weary of money -
a death Americanized.
How weary the world was.

Life is measured
in a choice
between death and
living with the eagerness
for more.

She saw a shadow bent over her,
death's mouth was hungry.
She struggled
to break free.
A cold kiss opened her mouth.

She stood there,
together in the midnight darkness
with her lover. They swayed and stumbled forward
over the edge
locked in death's embrace.

The face of my nightmare,
Death's mask
coming to life.
The mighty fury of
his blazing eyes
in the dark.

Death itself, is
depths of unfathomable water.
Things submerged, shut forever in
eternal frost.
Life's end is a sleep alienated
so complete in black.