Thirty-One Days                                         day xxviii                                                 Tittle Page

awake! from our cataclysmic black nights
of serpentine dreams in heaven's despite
all our lives equate to rings of fire
surrounding us, burning us,
with death at its terminus
there can be no cleansing peace of rest
for there is a knock at the door
wait! don't answer it!
could be death
arriving with a cold and sudden breath

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