Soothsayer

A soothsayer walks into my gate

Shabbily dressed and to tell your fate

I hate to know where I would be tomorrow

And she looked deep into your eyes to tell the sorrow

Strange birds flew around me

A sudden silence spread in the air

Her voice cracked down my ears

My throat dried up to resist

She said,

"You faced the coldness twice

And the third one will strike soon"

"You are in a snake pit and you will

Be brought down every time you climb"

"They will crawl all over you and you will

Turn blue into poison and your eyes would bleed"

And she walked out of my sight

And disappeared from my wet eyes

Here I'm scared to close my eyes

Here I'm cold like an ice cube

Here I'm afraid of dreams

Here I'm restless in the dark

My grandmother told me, "Death strikes when you are asleep."

I smoked up my senses, waiting for it to strike

Nights after nights I longed for days

And days I sat staring into nothing with heavy eyes

My room smelled of chardonnay and cigarette

And I knew that was the smell of Death

One afternoon when the Sun was bright

I fell asleep while struggling to stay awake

And I dreamt, a valley of yellow flowers

I realized, when I woke up, that I was dead for weeks

And the soothsayer killed me that afternoon

When she left the words in my mind

And disappeared from my wet eyes