Dear Death

"you find solace in this:
nothing worse can ever happen to you.
you have encountered death,
sprawled underneath his vacant gaze,
endured the torture of his men, his sellswords,
and now carry the aftereffects in your bones

(which make you whimper with each and every newfound step that you take,
like you have been reborn underneath its shadow,
and you are learning how to walk again)."

Or, encounters with Death and his siblings.