Presence

Existential anxiety....

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       Real Presence

Death is all around me,

Thinking he'll be fed,

Sitting on my night stand,

Hovering o'er my head.

 

I can smell his evil breath,

Full of foul decay;

Funny how his presence

Makes me stop and pray.

 

God always seems more real to me

When Death unveils his presence;

Though Death himself is preferable

To mindless blank senescence.