ve at her doorstep and take her away from this world and the confusing Christian Lord.
             She lyrically proclaims in "Come Death", a poem within the New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith, "Ah me, sweet Death, you are the only god Who comes as a servant when he is called, you know Listen then to this sound I make, it is sharp, Come Death. Do not be slow" (Smith 146). Smith is begging the haste of Death to her bedside in an attempt to overcome the mortal restraints Christians suffer when trying to understand who God is. By inviting Death, she solely took comfort in the one constant everyone on Earth will agree upon, which is the fact dying is the one thing every human has in common. As opposed to putting her faith in a debated theory, Smith turned to the reliability of the Reaper. However, Smith could never completely turn a deaf ear to the subject of God and His affect on her life.
             A longtime personal friend of Smith's, Reverend Gerald Irvine, declared, "One could say she did not like the God of Christian orthodoxy,
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