You're back! Glad you shared this. I enjoyed the rhymes.

I think this was my favorite stanza:

"There is such bliss and torture in the almost
A taste of death could not bequeath such thrills
As those who sail the stars must find it wanting,
Hold temptation in their grasp, and lose it still"

- Especially with that first line, the anticipation of "almost" and what it implies.

Maybe I'm projecting my own feelings, but I connected to this in terms of romanticizing death, having a confusing relationship with it. Sometimes wanting it. Sometimes being afraid. Knowing it is such a powerful force that can come at any time. Knowing that there are those who wouldn't struggle?

Also in that last stanza, there is an understanding that this could potentially bring you peace, and no matter how the end comes (gently or perhaps more aggressively, or indifferently as you say), you'll accept it.

The first readthrough I assumed this was directed at someone, but I quickly changed my mind and thought it was something more intangible. The idea of an end, even if it's not death itself but some kind of holding place or whatever one may call it. The presence of death can certainly be a comfort for some (I mean I relate to it), but maybe too this was something that can't be categorized as life or death. More a feeling or a state of being into something different, something fulfilling, that you are not experiencing now. Maybe a desire to be taken from monotony? From what is expected? From where you feel life is stagnant?

I'm not sure! But anyways, this was an interesting piece!