Reply to Emily Dickinson’s ‘Because I could not stop for Death’

wait their turn

you must not wait
at the table
for the people
you intend to kill.
let them wait for you;

isn’t it a favour
that you will take
them out of all their
miseries?
for long,

let everyone wait
their turn.
the dinner guest
will eat at every table
when his time is nigh.

Younglan Talyoung