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DEATH

You are the firstborn of the dead,           Revelation 1:5.
You are the fruit ripened by death,
from the never-ending tree of life
from which we must eat, if we wish
to avoid the final death.
Because You have made our death
the origin and the sovereign of life,
a white Death wrapped in a black mantle           Revelation 6:8.
and mounted on a pale horse;
Death, the Empress of History
who, once we are dead, captures
us with the greed of a conqueror.

Man is the son of God, and God the son
of Man; Christ, with your death you have
given the Universe a human attribute
and you are now the death of Death!           Hosea 13:14.