I love retellings of old stories, like fairy tales. One of the stories you see often is Persephone’s story, where a young woman is kidnapped by Death, and most of them end like the original, with her making some sacrifice to be with him. Often she gives up her life, family and friends, joining him in the Underworld. Which made me think–why does she have to give up so much?
Image from WikiMedia by Didier Descouens.
Death’s Love
Once upon a time
there was a girl who fell in love
with Death
and he with her, but fate
decreed they could not be
together until her heart ceased to beat
so they were separated
mourned
and longed
She fell in love again
married and had two children
both boys
lived a long life
died peacefully in her sleep
and rose
young again in spirit
Death greeted her
and their afterlife was very happy
together
caitlinsternwrites 
Happy? She was DEAD. This Death must be quite a guy.
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Well, she lived a long life, and died naturally. And then she got to be with her first love, so that’s pretty happy.
It seemed a better idea than a book I read where a girl ended up trapped in the underworld in her teens, which is what gave me the idea.