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Death Comes For Us On Horseback
by
Richard C. Wall
death comes for us on horseback
and always knows the way
it always comes too soon
and wastes no time to stay
it journeys in the midnight hour
with a quiet promise
and finds you sleeping you hope
with a morbid solace
down the road
and past the mill
down the path
comes your kill
death comes for us on horseback
and always knows the way
It travels on a sickly steed
that's lived past its day
clitter clat down the road
its closer every second
your very heart beat in your chest
is the signal that has beckoned
it goes through your pantry
and poisons your daily bread
it creeps in your home
and snuggles in your bed
death comes for us on horseback
and always knows the way
it always comes too soon
and wastes not time to stay
fools cry and morn their death
before the day has come
and die sooner for worries' sake
before their time is done
but Death will be there soon enough
and take back what is loaned
all but a corpse belongs to death
and an epitaph in stone
death comes for us on horseback
and always knows the way
it travels on a sickly steed
that's lived past its day
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