Death's Note

• Miriam Cwiek, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2020

A signing of a name
In the bottom right corner…
A whistle and a whisper
And hence comes the black mourner
Dark feathers and soulless eyes
A tilt of the head
And he loudly cries
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Grasping in his talons
Death takes the final letter
Flies out the window and up to the sky
Lays it in on a cloud with a painful sigh
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Far down a smile remains where the winged creature once stood…
A once lonely girl given her chance
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With a prayer
And a hope
Freedom at last