Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Harry Potter. No money is being made.
Author's Note: I used to write poetry all the time, and these days, I simply do not have the time to write as I used to, but this came to be tonight in a small inspiration of about five minutes. It's about Severus Snape, of course.
Cruel Mercy
By Sindie
If there is to be one mercy in this life,
Then don't be so cruel, Death.
Don't hold off another minute,
Keeping me waiting on this barren earth,
So filled with pestilence and riddled with hatred.
God knows I have enough of both in my own bitter heart,
And like the coward everyone calls me,
It is easier to be so cruel,
So you and I understand each other quite well, Death.
Be like an old friend,
One with green eyes and fiery hair
Whose angelic ghost is imprinted on my mind's
Deepest recesses, haunting the shadows there.
Perhaps I have tried to push the ancient memories away
And delude myself into thinking it all a mocking dream
Of something too pure and good for one such as me.
Time then drags for an eternity and passes in an instant...
Death, you are knocking now as silvery tendrils
Of those memories fall away from me
And my life bleeds out,
And there are those green eyes,
And I am left wondering:
How cruel can mercy be?