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You Never Stare Death in the Face

October 23, 2013
By IAmHarleyPool BRONZE, Cle Elum, Washington
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IAmHarleyPool BRONZE, Cle Elum, Washington
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Together forever, never apart. Maybe by distance, but never at heart.

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By the time it happened
It was all over.
I could feel the blood in my face
Gone, from being scared.

I just stood there
My feet planted to the ground.
I was frozen,
Frozen in shock of what I just saw.

Death...
Had stared me in the face
But I didn't look back...

© Allison S., Eau Claire, WI

The author's comments:
What inspired this piece is, I've had death stare straight at me in the face but that was it, I never looked at it as death but as the life that could be.
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