Death's Deception

Death is kismet
The missing piece, in
Life's jigsaw puzzle
The final peace.

Sombre nights spent
In unease
Trying to figure out
the ethereal whisper
In the languid breeze.

Stripping the soul off
Beauty's face
Laser gazing
Through time and space
My eyes do burn
Shadows deeper fall
I cannot this mystery
Penetrate.

Beautiful in the
Wicked night
Hangs a question mark
Eloquently tight
That squeezes summer's hearts
With wintry pain
Deathly beloved
Is Absence then.

I know you not.
Whom I must know.
I escape into you
From Time's deathly throes.
I can't outrun my fate
To find you
My final friend.

Your name upon my
Lips
The birth cry of the babe.

Death the kismet
The last escape
The wormhole
Whose other pallid end
Could perhaps be Light
Or even blacker hole
Necromantic romancer
Of hopeless souls
Tell me your amazing story
A groundhog's day tale
Caressing the broken  heart
That in your icy embrace
Must learn to fail.

(c) Amrita Valan 2017