(man) <br />I never felt your presence first, <br />But now I fear you've come too close, <br />Take someone else to quench your thirst, <br />For I dread you! Oh, hear my woes! <br /> <br />(death) <br />Your time has come, you cannot run, <br />I've followed every stage of your life, <br />Like a shadow in the sun, <br />Waiting to use deaths own knife. <br /> <br />(man) <br />I beg you, I plead you, I bessech, <br />Braver men before have fled, <br />The night shall hear my tragic screech, <br />Please, I don't want to my grave be led. <br /> <br />(death) <br />I've been waiting outside your door, <br />Alas, even life shall last, <br />But that has been decreed before, <br />Now you're mine, the rest is past!<br /><br />Amatullah Areeba Ashfaq<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/man-speaking-to-death/
