This Darkness

This darkness,
she did not fear this darkness.
She did not fight the flame of her shadow.
She welcomed the warm embrace
as the arms of love.
She left as if it was the natural
and only choice she forgot she knew.
Acceptance of a stillness
far more suspended than any other,
she possessed it.
She comfortably let go
into a sleep deeper than dreams
and innocently followed it to eternity.
She gracefully stopped the hands of time,
the ticking of the clock,
the rising and setting of the Sun,
and left the room forever
with the same awe she entered and existed in.
No questions.
No fears.
No hurry.
She arrived before Death
and left after Death.
She didn't long for Death,
Death longed for her.