garden work
cutting back the honeysuckle
hospital trip
© Rachel Green April 2025
VI.V
Tough without her mighty steed of dirt-flecked white
with liquid eyes of milky blue like hers
this rider of the final storm gives fright
when she enters in the last few days of earth.
More terrible than the her siblings, she
cares little for the lives of those beneath her sight
for like the teachings of the early church
she knows that suffering is the lot of human plight.
Unlike War, whose love of conquest is unending,
and famine, who will follow close behind;
and Death, who comes with mercy vending,
Pestilence is to forgiveness blind.
© Rachel Green April 2025
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