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The Heart Of Death

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It was a night like any other as I drove myself to work,
Winding through the snowy roads where Death likes to lurk.
As my tires swam through slush and the winds picked up speed,
Death hid in the banks working up his dirty deed.

Then across the snowy median of I-86,
I saw a car fishtail toward me as it glided on the slick.
For a second I was as frozen as the ice on my breath,
And right there stood before me was the one and only Death.

"I have come for you tonight for this death is your fate,
Don't try to plead for your life for I will not wait."
He reached out for me with his grimly hand,
"Wait," I said with a smile, "let me change your plan."

Death drew back his hand as he looked at me in shock,
For no other had the guts, to challenge his death clock.
"What can you say to me to make me change my mind."
He said with a laugh, "I do not have the time."

I knew if I showed Death what lies deep within my heart,
He would know it's not yet time for life and I to part.
As we stood on the highway, beneath the frozen storm above,
I whispered unto Death, "Do you believe in love?"

"I do not know of love...only pain, despair, and dread."
Said Death as he slowly begin to bow his head.
I could see I got his attention so I continued on,
I told him of a story that would last until the dawn.

"Death, I know you want to take me to the Angels in the sky,
God already sent me one but this one does not fly.
She walks upon the earth, she is of heart and soul,
She breaths the breath of life of which many you have stole."

"I cannot change fate," he said, "I cannot spare your breath."
"But you can." I corrected, "You are the Angel of Life and Death."
"Tell me," he said with a smirk, "why should I spare your life?"
"Because..." I said with a tear, "she has yet to be my wife."

Death took a step back as he looked me in the eyes,
We stood in silence for a moment beneath the frozen skies.
He then walked toward me as he looked me up and down,
An inch from my broken face, he asked with a frown.

"Where is this angel you speak of in which you claim to be in love,
The one you say God sent you from the heavens up above?
I've never seen her in your life, I've never seen her around.
Tell me now why I shouldn't, in this moment, strike you down."

"I have yet to meet her for I love her from afar."
I then said with a smile, "We are connected by the stars.
I have still yet to hold her in my loving arms.
I have yet to caress her heart with all my loving charms.

I have yet to share a kiss with her soft tender lips.
I have yet to dance with her with my arms around her hips.
Death, if you spare me from an end in this cold,
You can come for us both when we live life and grow old."

Death pulled off his hood and from his hollow eyes,
Tears streamed down his skull as he began to cry.
Then across the snowy median of I-86,
I saw a car drive on by into the snowy winter mix.

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