Death's Diary: 1942 (307)

What does he need distraction from?

It's the leftover humans.

The survivors. 

They have punctured hearts.

They have beaten lungs.

I witness the ones who are left behind. (5)

First the colors.

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least,

How I try.

Here's a small fact:

You are going to die. (3)

I urge you,

Don't be afraid. 

I'm nothing if not fair. (3)

World War Two. (73)

What will the sky be saying

When I come for you?

I will carry you gently away. (4)

First the colors.

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least,

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You are going to die. (3)

I've seen so many young men over the years,

Who think they're running at other young men.

They are not. 

They're running at me. (174-175)

They keep triggering inside me. 

They harass my memory. (309)

First the colors. 

Then the humans. 

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least, 

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You're going to die. (3)

I saw the book thief three times. (5)

From a Himmel Street window, he wrote,

The stars set fire to my eyes. (378)

One was a book thief.

The other stole the sky. (381)

First the colors. 

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least,

How I try.

Here's a small fact:

You are going to die. (3)

Inner voices called out to me, 

Why him and not me? (389)

Although it's not true for every person on earth,

It's true for the vast majority,

Death waits for no man. (350)

First the colors. 

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least, 

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You are going to die. (3)

I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray, 

To the color of rain.

Even the clouds were trying to get away. (350)

First the colors.

Then the humans. 

That's usually how I see things. 

Or at least,

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You are going to die. (3)

I try to remember the strewn pieces of beauty,

I saw in that time.

I plow through my library of stories.(309)

It was nice to be fought off in that dark little room,

With so much work ahead of me. (318)

First the colors.

Then the humans. 

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least, 

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You are going to die. (3)

The bombs were coming-

And so was I. (335)

I am not malicious,

I am a result. (6)

Sometimes I arrive too early.

And some people cling longer to life than expected. (9)

First the colors.

Then the humans.

That's usually how I see things.

Or at least,

How I try.

Here's a small fact: 

You are going to die. (3)

Humans,

If nothing else,

Have the good sense to die. (491)

But it kills me sometimes.

How people die. (464)