Final Embrace

She begged for it to come in the cold wind of a winter night,
for it to come and embrace her coldly and yet warmly,
while her heart being pierced in a final sunset,
gave way to a final breath and a final name that will be blown away
a name that became aghast and will be bathed in the ashes of time,
for this one has already taken its toll and may show no mercy at all.

She begged for it to fall in love with her, inexhorably,
to fall in love with her own light and darkness,
to behold her raputure and content,
and perhaps, to take her own heart and burn it away,
and so finally Death fulfilled her desire,
and provided her with a warm embrace,
and moistured her crimson lips with tears,
tears that trickled and entwine with those of hers
and her hair was bathed in thousands of petals of roses,
and for everyone to behold such beauty in a creature,
that even in a final moment showed no decadence.

Death proudly demostrated his art on her,
the beauty of his embrace, and the leading of his way,
and she beheld all this awestricken
and gave him her bleeding heart
to be turned into ashes of dust and roses,
and Death kissed her in her dying breath,
and shed tears for her,
for he fell in love with her, her soul, her darkness and light
and hence he kept her heart, unstained, bleeding,
and he showered it with his own tears
and kept it for him unselfishly,
and cried in sorrow for she was there no more,
for he has given her the final embrace

RQ
Rome
22Jul10