Consolation from Death

I gave the darkness a name

As it finally surrounded me.

Death became my closest friend

In those inevitable hours and minutes.

My life never flashed before

My eyes, as some people have said;

But what I saw was simple, nothing.

The pain slipped away as a strange,

Surreal numbness o'er took me,

Almost euphoric in feeling.

The creeping drug of lifelessness.

How was I to fight it?

I could sense the reaper, close.

He stooped low and whispered

With the voice of an angel,

That the time was drawing nigh.

Time to say goodbye to

Everything I have ever known.

To the people, places, and pains

I have known so intimately.

His cold, bony hand took mine

And he led me down the way

Meant only for the dead.

Like lightning striking the tree

It hit me, I was dead!

Never again to live at all.

No more suns to feel, nor breaths to take.

Can no longer love, and loved no longer.

The pit in my stomach began to rise.

I wondered if what I believed was true;

The many stories of the afterlife.

Although his hand was holding mine

I felt his fingers dance up my spine.

The final moment of my mortal life,

Snuffed out like a lonely candle

Illuminating a room void of all.

Was there more or was this it?

I was about to soon find out;

As my eyes closed forever.