Sunday, October 26, 2008

Dealers in Death


Dealers in death
dabbling in darkness

we are the gatekeepers of the porthole to the next world


Our clients : Dead Before Arrival

bones cling-wrapped in skin

ravaged by a retrovirus

distorting DNA

motherless


we will callously stamp their passport

for the next leg of the journey

3 comments:

Nooj said...

Truly a heart wrenching job
yet someone must do it
and maybe the smile you offer them means more than anything else in this World

Az said...

In the Middle Ages people were always buried with two coins placed on their eyes...payment for the one receiving the dead and transporting him/her into the other world.

Some scary stuff man :)

bb_aisha said...

And yet people think doctors live glamarous lives. Does one respect life more or less when faced with mortality each day?

Vivid imagery Ayesha-beautiful in its harshness