Everafter

Death is a figure that will linger forever

Fear, Laughter, and Pride string alongside

Murmurs fog the mind

Leaving it from Reassurance 

Letting our Imaginations

Play the Game

Ambitious, intolerable of Truth

Death becomes a laughing stock

No made is Gulled by Him

Darkness Paralyzes in the end

Fabricating no afterthought

We saunter this Earth with Disregard

Death smothers us from the inside out

Words, Thoughts, Emotions tearing through

the mind at much too Hasty a pace

He strikes Fear into our Lives

The Worries of the World pass into Oblivion

Being exchanged with the out-of-hand, out-of-bounds Truth

He Devours our Souls alive in the Hours of Darkness

His most Darling are the souls who Pride

Who "perceive" his utmost Secret

Constructing Faith in the Ever after 

They confabulate with the Creator of Life

Assimilating every ounce of His Succor

Reassuring themselves a House of Gold will be waiting in the End

Death cackles at us all

He taunts us like a schoolgirl repeating "I'll Never Tell"

The Prideful, the Laughing, and the Fearful will

all before long become One

That is, after Life has His Fun

Death will take over, Damning us All 

To the Unexplained and Unseen

Paige Phillips 2017