Life and Death sought to converse
Life offering:
 
“You death
impose upon me
Cruel Ironies
wasting my years
laboring under
your Cleverest Illusion
that you were so distant
so distant so as not to exist;
the Illusions  Youth Caress
an illusion of no endings
only Happily Ever Afters.

The Old now
Bereft
come
to suspect there is no
happy ever after
what so ever
and may invent
a substitute
calling it Religion.

Death said:

"Yes Life
I have noticed this as well
the inventing
of an Ever After
calling it Heaven
or such;
Being with God
its Signal Aspect
being
that I Death
am banned
from the premises
where I am totally
denied.
This I perceive
is its only purpose-
to deny me my due-
sacrificed to Humankind’s
pitiful insistence
that Humankind be allowed
to live forever
and ever after
cheating me
of my just due.

It is the denial of the yin and yang
the wave without the trough
the music without the silences.
Beginnings without  Endings.

“But surely you understand
Life,”
Death said
“there is no you-Life
without my being
present;
no beginning is conceivable
without me-its ending.

I represent all endings
Death said
drawing himself
up to his full height
finally saying;

“What fairy tales
your mortals weave
as they angrily
dismount
  theira unicorns.

They build apace  their
fairy castles in the air
and then try to move in.
 

Life said:

“Ah me thinks
your premise
proves too much
Death
because contrarily
you-Death
have no meaning
or course
without me-Life.

Therefore
you must conclude
that under the skin
we are brothers;
no?

And just perhaps
of we two
you Death
are the
Grandest Illusion
of all
depending upon
one's philosophy
one's lllusion of You
or one's Illuison of Me."