An Ode to Death (the Thirteenth Card of the Major Arcana)

How is it

that no one's learned by now

you aren't just some grim tiding

here to ruin everyone's day?

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You are a liberator,

a driving wedge between us

and that which no longer serves us.

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You are a new harvest,

born from the tenacious seeds

our past had sown,

clearing the fertile field

for an even fresher crop.

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You may not always be invited,

or even expected by most,

but you always leave us

a truer form of ourselves.

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