Death beckons

Just beyond 

My doorway

Awakening me rudely

From my dreams

Entreating me to journey

Somnambulently

Into the dark night

Death beckons

Be shrouded by the darkness

Cloaked by anonymous shadows

Death visits by night

And knocks upon these portals

Not daring to pass

Into the lighted spaces

And interior warmth of my little home

So well lived by day

by Hugh M. Lewis