A Sinner's Death

Death most resembles

a prophetess who is without honor

in her own land

or

a poetess who is a stranger

among her people

How frighteningly will it be

when death soon spoils her appetites

and makes this world

so empty,

and so soon

suddenly her sinning stops

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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