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# Haunting Death
- URL: https://www.vasopapa.com/haunting-death/
- Published: 2026-10-02T10:06:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T10:11:19.000Z
- Author: Vaso Papadopoulou
- Tags: Poems, creative writing,, creativity,, death,, happiness,, heart,, literature,, love,, life,, pain,, poem,, poetry,, writer,, writing,, wounds,, karma,

The alluring song of the nightingale

a riddling needle through my wretched heart,

awakened memories of a fancy tale

when we lived together in harmony

and trusted we would never drift apart.

But fate, along with death, played a cruel ploy

where the reaper lurked in a dark corner,

agonizing tirelessly to destroy,

and struck the one left behind as a mourner

to bear alone a consuming fire.

It unwove our entwined fingers by force,

and threw a heavy shade on our path,

steering our destiny off its course;

one fell victim to a cruel wrath of death,

and dusk settled its lasting veil on me.

*©2026, Vasiliki Papadopoulou*