Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Targeted

Boris Karloff, one of his last

Performances came when he played

An old film actor who's time passed,

His fiction horror now real made.

In the film Boris told a tale

Of how death, she will not allow

Any target to let death fail

By trying to escape somehow.

This "Targets" scene just took him one

Take and other actors and crew

Stood applauding his perfection.

But truth of the tale Boris knew.

He waited patiently for her.

Within a year death came for sure.