Shared In One Breath of Life

I smell the fruit of the persimmon tree and a haunting begins as shivers run free of the road ahead and one laying behind I sweep them all up and out of my mind as a shadow appears and is far past the veil his robes swung out like wind in a sail in his eyes is an evil that glitters the dark the cut of his mouth like the score of a mark his hair of serpents reach out in glee and it was then I held my soul close to me his reason for coming was that I had sold, my soul for a life that no air does hold but I found out, that sometimes god forgives, in my sacrifice was found the very reason I live someone had perished so I could breathe air, but what I would give now if we could have just shared