De Vultures

Death is here again. She returned to remind you that life goes on. People will keep dying, when you are oblivious, when you are aware.
It will never feel the same.
The vultures also came to eat the carcass away. They fought, as they do, for every bite. Don't bother closing your eyes. You know what is happening.
Don't pretend.
They can't smell you anymore, why run away? You know they are everywhere. There is still time left to morph into someone else.
No one has to know.
If they turn towards you, eat your own skin. Lather up with blood and turn the bones into ashes. Let them scuffle for the dust of what they could never be.
Don't you dare let them win.