Keeper of the Chaos

Hey friends!!! Comin' in with a new poem!!!

Awhile ago, I was being super emo and thinking about how the relationship with death is probably the most intimate and consistent one those of us with chronic illnesses have, and that led to the idea for a retelling of the Persephone myth, but with Persephone as a chronically ill disabled girl constantly in and out of the hospital. Think "Flirting with Death" but literally lol. This is the very first part of what I came up with! I’ll post the rest weekly.

This is another part of my mini-collection of death themed poems, called “An Internship with Death”.


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It happened like it always does



The clock ticked, and then it didn’t

Everything stilled in his presence

Death’s grand fanfare:

Silence

bellowing until his footsteps could be heard

echoing

in the hall

striding

toward her room,

she knew
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