Death wears many guises
Hiding inside hope�s doubts
Festering under a wish ignored
Death sleeps inside the prayer too late
And rues inside regret�s last chance
Death plays many tricks
Like the romance of love
Or the truth behind hello
Death gambles with a loaded deck
And leaves you breathless
Death comes in many fancies
Sometimes hanging on the baby�s breath
Or in that cough too long overdue
Death plays with wires and synapses
And sometimes merely stops the beating
But the misery of death
The sheer torture comes
When death comes silently
And all you can hope for
Is that she comes no more
