<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364613" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death is a close friend<br>he hangs his coat up and warms by the fire<br>even helps around with the house to tend <br>to all that must be done before he departs and takes you higher<br>death is fully known <br>he has an air of certainty<br>and certainly<br>I welcome him into me<br>I'd accept my fate with glee<br>But Life, Life is the stranger<br>unexpected, uninvited, uncertain, fraught with danger<br>Life could be good or evil; the doubt of what is to come<br>the doubt of the future<br>all dreams this life could defer<br>all hopes this life could kill<br>all love it could will<br>into death and yet all happiness it may bring<br>to make even the saddest heart sing<br>but i take not the risk<br>and i invite death, that which<br>is certain and he who is known<br>Death, o Death you are welcome in my home</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Knox">David Knox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364613" data-title="The Friend de David Knox" data-description="Death is a close friend he hangs his coat up and warms by the fire even helps around with the house to tend to all that must be done before he departs and takes you higher death is fully known he has an air of certainty and certainly I welcome h..."></div> </div> </div>

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