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death's eyes

December 20, 2022
By the_moon GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
the_moon GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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i looked death in the eye and begged for mercy.

i looked death in the eye and cried for refrain.

i looked death in the eye and asked for time.

i looked death in the eye and deserved pain.


death does not scare me,

for i have looked through his eyes,

but life,

her eyes follow me.

mud-stained jungles

dancing in my reflection,

shimmering emeralds

splintering my world,


her eyes – everything,

a final glimpse of beauty;

a final look 

before i rebirth.


The author's comments:

"death's eyes" is an ekphrastic poem written on Leonora Carrington’s The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997).


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