I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

The speaker’s request to “hear Death speak” is answered not by a separate voice but by Life itself, implying that death is not an alien interruption so much as something audible within life’s own utterance. Gibran’s personification—Life as “her,” Death as “him”—stages a dialogue that collapses the boundary between the two: what we call death is already present in the texture of living (in change, loss, aging, and the constant passing of moments). The line suggests that seeking death as a distinct revelation is misguided; to listen deeply to life is already to encounter mortality. The effect is both consoling and unsettling, reframing death as continuous with life rather than its opposite.