Death Is an Illusion

It’s so unfair to escape
the dealer of darkness
only to be back in his hold.
Death is an illusion,
a poem of perfect pretend.
Longing to live unafraid.
To step one last time beyond
the numbness that’s become
so normal,
so surreal.
Only I get to decide
if there exists
an edge somewhere
beyond infinity
separating my darkness from light.