Kiss of Death

You look at me as if searching

Into the depths of my frozen heart

Seeking some flames of kindness

Some place where you may start



But you find nothing,

Not even a soul to capture

Instead a gothic beauty

And lips so full of rapture



You ask me why I'm here

Why I have come

I bear gifts for the mortals

Mortals old and young



The gift of death

A kiss of eternal sleep

Their body is released to you

But their soul is mine to keep



For what would be the underworld

If it did not hold the dead?

I chuckle cold as ice

My eyes a gleaming red

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I don't like this one - it's as if I was rhyming just to rhyme. 2005

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Ah, I do that sometimes... Not much anymore, for alot of my poetry doesn't really rhyme. But I liked this one, none-the-less. The ending was pretty kool.