Dialogue with Death
"How seek you to live such a life? The worst of the evils haunt you each day and you mind, body and soul thus grow weaker by the minute. Succumb to my will and I shall release you from your misery. I shall bring you to abandon this wretched existence of torment and misery, and then you may find your release, finally your peace in a place other than this."
"No. Why choose I to follow you? For you are the bringer of doom and bringer of fading life and soul. You tempt me with these words of mock comfort only for your own pleasure and surely none of mine. Bear in mind that I have seen you many a time and I know clearly the price that you charge for the grim services that you so willingly supply."
"Wrong be you! I bring not doom nor fading life, but an eternal escape from this realm of existence. I will bring you to another realm. How know you the ramifications of the place when you have never set foot on it? I see that you are blind; blind from your fear of the chance of more misery and torment. Know that I only bring escape and what that lies beyong was of your own making. Why not take this chance? In a way, I am saving you from yourself. Come, follow me and I shall from this moment on, purge you from your misery."
"But you see, I should not accept your gift nor your chance. I have cried for a saviour but not one of your nature. How generous it is for you to offer such a small being as I this alluring service. Though, I still wish to remain here. In my misery, I shall feel pain of which tells me I am alive."
"Though your life seems to be not of others. Do you not see the others going about with such glee and glitter on their faces? Fake not your worldly strength, for I know you have none. You cannot hide your thoughts from me, I see right through you. The grace that you seemingly have attained from this world is of nothing if not fake. Even you know this. You feel it in your heart and you soul is wailing. Where be your caregivers and lovers? They are all but gone. Do not deny your wishes for imancipation. Here, I am giving you that chance. Take it."
"I shall receive not your temptations for this chance that you offer. For it is still in me that I shall arrive to my ends on the day that has been set since I was born. Why do you seek to take me early? I see no rush. I will be with myself and alone if I have to, which to its cause I might perish, but it would still be of more a natural cause than seeking you now. I wish not become weak and fearing to the terror within me."
"Though, long have you sought me. Thus here I am before you, hailing your call and I have come readily, willingly to collect. You cried for one reason; and I believe that reason is clear in your mind. How long can you survive on your own?"
"Till the day that I die."
"Then master, I shall leave you be. For you are set in your ways and strong in will. Though I cater for so many, it has only been deluded that I am keeper of the gate to the other realm. It is truly for you to choose. And you have proven to be a true master of yourself. Let not any others tempt you to stray, for you have turned down the greatest of temptations."
"Indeed I have. Grateful I am that you choose to give me these precious words."
"And I leave you now with yet more. Master of life, master of self, master of death. I await you at your timely grave."
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