Breath of Death

Breath of Death

I feel calmer now

After venting, to a friend or two,

To those of us in health-care

You must be one too,

I can’t discuss it with my neighbor

And not my wife, at all,

They don’t understand, life-threatening

Or the Grim Reapers call.

I have been with death

Hundreds of times,

I know him in every culture

And understand his rhymes,

I have walked the pathway

That parallels life and death,

And you can’t understand it

If  you have never felt its breath.

Fibril_late;

10/29/13