DEATH PROTECTS US ALL
Illustration by Edward Gorey ©
Death protects us from burning in the Sun
Light that surrounds our momentum,
Or from drowning, faces upturned in the rain.
Decades like minutes whip us by.
But Death will protect us from the sting in the wind,
She’ll huddle us close in the folds of her midnight dress.
And when it’s time to go; 12 bells the toll,
She’ll insure that all her children are aligned and tenderly accounted for.
igorgoldkind
The Poesie of Igor Goldkind – Reciting Truth to Power 