April is national poetry month.
Ryerson is holding a haiku contest in light of this, with entries due before midnight on Friday, April 5.
Matthew Humphries, a second year English major at Ryerson recently wrote a poem that takes a deeper look into both life and death.
Humphries said:
“I wrote this poem because in order to live one must consider and reconcile with death. Moreover, the question of ‘when’ is not the only issue: WHERE is death?”



“I Am Death”
by Matthew Humphries

If Death is not, then I must Be
So how is Death to come to me?

How can a void
affect a form?
Unless it’s part -
a face that’s worn

So Death Be not outside,
it lives like an organ
Not springing from Earth, but
from the inside; dormant

Thus if I Be, so too Be Death
Mixed in with brain, exhaled like breath.