Death

Death. Please come in. Don't bother taking off your shoes. It will take time and I don't have much.

I need you. More than you can imagine. Maybe even more than others do.

We meet today and you scare me, I have to admit. I have seen you from afar before but you have never been so close. I can feel your cold breathe on my face.

I swallow back tears. And memories of old days. My life flashes before my eyes. But I close them and forget. Life is for later.

Today I have death.

The death of the big "I". The death of me as I knew it. The death of the voice in my head that tells me that I don't need to do this. The death of that which was once sacred.

So I welcome you into my heart and into my mind. Look around, make yourself comfortable. And do what you came here for.

And I hope no one mourns for me because...

I die in order to live.