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death's eyes
December 20, 2022
i looked death in the eye and begged for mercy.
i looked death in the eye and cried for refrain.
i looked death in the eye and asked for time.
i looked death in the eye and deserved pain.
death does not scare me,
for i have looked through his eyes,
but life,
her eyes follow me.
mud-stained jungles
dancing in my reflection,
shimmering emeralds
splintering my world,
her eyes – everything,
a final glimpse of beauty;
a final look
before i rebirth.
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"death's eyes" is an ekphrastic poem written on Leonora Carrington’s The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997).