The Pain of Pluto

 I would spend hours counting all the deaths in my head.

Eventually reaching into the millions.

After a while, I lost track.

The harbinger of death finally stepped on a crack.


Dead dogs in deep ditches.

Peewees in pesticide plagued playgrounds.

These were my feeding grounds.

Sneaking around in the dead of night like a rogue

collecting the souls of those no longer in vogue.


This was my routine for ages

probably since the time of the sages,

but something changed,

I met this girl who has barely aged

and every time I got called to her,

her death was staged.


It weighed heavy on my mind.

I couldn’t fathom why she wanted to die.

I had to send her back time and time again.

It left me with this immeasurable pain.

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