Eyes of a dead man

I gazed into the eyes of a man.

They were deep and dark—
an empty, frozen place.

There was no fear, no hate.

As i glanced into the eyes of that man;
they were as empty
as the cold night sky.

His freedom had drained long ago.

Today, I looked into the eyes of a dead man
and saw that immortality may not be just a dream.
Death is nothing more than an end of one journey and the start of another—

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