The Endless conversation...

A snicker and a smile,
slowly approaching life
from behind.

What are you doing,
Death asked its brother
Life?

I am bathing in the glory
of the living, Life answers.

Bathing?
What an interesting analogy,
that one could bathe in the
living?

Death,
You can not see how the
beauty of the living pours
down over me like a gentle
rain,

that washes away all my
(life's) misery -  flowing into a
river, carrying it away from me!

You speak of the living
my brother life, as if they were
our four cousins, that replenish
in the rains and breezes of the
Spring,

No!!
Once the living are in my grip,
when you have relinquished
your pleasure, there is no return
on Beltane!! (May Day)

Brother Death,
I do understand, I am enjoying
the living in their moment,
that is NOW!!

The living are but a blink of my
eye, and with each blink the living
are refreshed.

Life,
You do not understand, with each
blinking of your eye, is where I
stand, cleaning the mess you have
left behind.

Then brother Death we are in
agreement, that like the wind this
cycle will never end.

Yes we are, I will always be in the
shadow of your pleasure!!