Death's Invitation

I think in many ways, Lilith and you changed each other! I know that what this poem is all about since she was... is... Death. And Lilith and I, we have always been well acquainted like old friends. So I understand your meaning with this poem. Just as you and I changed either other too! So it was then for you with her. Love is always like that... even between ones who are human only in the body. Always the invitation is just the first beginning of certain things, the change comes later. Death does not give herself to be loved or to love others very often! You are blessed to have captured her heart and lived to write of it. I like this poem a lot, I will save it with the others I enjoy.

Interestingly, that actually IS Lilith in the image there, one of the best artistic depictions of her that I ever made especially likeness-wise. And, I had named the image itself "Death's Invitation", so when I considered creating this visual poem that was the image that immediately jumped into my mind as being the natural and perfect choice to complete the whole project in an ideal fashion. I believe that love also always begins with an invitation... an invitation to join someone on their life's journey, and even well beyond when life's journey is done. Since love is eternal when it is truest, after all! And nothing changes us quite like love does also. It is, if anything, likely the most powerful catalyst for change imaginable. Certain things in existence are a part of a great cycle... life, death, and rebirth for one instance. Love does not simply fit within such a great cycle, love also stands apart from it and outside of it, which is what allows it to be such a transcendent, eternal force. As such, it is something we take with us throughout eternity, and thus love is the greatest gift of all. So, interestingly my feelings and philosophies regarding love are all a part of one of the deepest and most profound meanings of this visual poem. It is of course about Lilith too... and so is also in that way about Death... but in her form as the great goddess Kali, she is the embodiment of love as well as death. So, in that way this dual level of meaning, with multiple layers and levels to that meaning, is only appropriate and something Lilith herself would find delight in. I am happy you liked the poem! I do not do visual poems often, but when the mood takes me, and I feel just the right sort of inspiration, then everything comes together in a way that makes the creation of a great visual poem not just possible but a literally inspired choice. Lastly, you are correct... she learned I think as much from me as I did from her. Lilith, I mean. In this life alone, she started me upon a path that I walk still, and had I not met her I would have been lost.