Halls of the Dark Muse

I was reading a book when one of the characters mentioned a challenge to write a 10 verse poem with 200 letters, so I was intrigued.


Angel of Death


I taste gunmetal
on your lips, you are
beyond my reach, death lingers
behind your far away eyes,
bullets fall from the sky.

We made love
on an unmarked grave,
our flesh carved the stone
the look in your eyes an elegy
how beautiful the Angel of Death is.