When Death Arrives

They say when death arrives, it doesn’t take you, it walks beside you. On that dark path through the trees, she finally saw it. Not a shadow, not a stranger, but something that almost resembled herself. She saw it just up ahead, but something wasn’t quite right. It never turned, it never said a word. And when she finally stepped off the path, she realized too late that it had followed her back. Only this time it had learned how to take her place.