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This poem was inspired from a synopsis of a movie. It’s a Villanelle – a nineteen-line poem with a rhyming scheme of aba aba aba aba aba abaa. The first and third lines in the first stanza are repeated but alternated throughout and are the last two lines of the poem.

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Why must I hear their cries?

I arrive without question for their letters--

A friend of death in disguise.

Stories and wales heard through the skies

of quick deaths, or Death twiddling its thumbs.

Why must I hear their cries?

But I take their cherished ties

and deliver them to the graves--

A friend of death in disguise.

Some say they do despise

for the way I let them carry-on with their pain.

Why must I hear their cries?

I like to believe my actions wise

because letting go will come soon enough--

A friend of death in disguise.

It is what makes me arise,

to see hope with these lost souls.

Why must I hear their cries?

A friend of death in disguise.

Letters and Death,

Bea