Death Trip

John Horan
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readAug 9, 2019

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I feel the crooked hands of death

Grip my neck

I plead for just one more breath

It’s always been like this

Half in love with suicide

Yet totally determined to survive

I relax my grip

Death will come someday anyway

Pretend it’s two days away

And live with grace today

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John Horan
Poets Unlimited

Writer of novels, scripts and poems. Teaches meditation. Thinks too much. https://linktr.ee/johnhoranpoetry