The Expiration
John Donne
1572 to 1631
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So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse,
Which two soules, and vapors Both away,
Turne thou ghost way, and let mee turne this,
And let our benight our happiest day,
We ask'd none leave to love; nor will we owe
Any, so cheape a death, as saying, Goe;
Goe; and if that word have quite kil'd thee,
Ease mee with death, by bidding goe too.
Oh, if it have, let my word on mee,
And a just office on a murderer doe.
Except it be too late, to kill me so,
Being double dead, going, and bidding, goe.