The reaper

I thought about why the grim reaper is grim, and I ended up with this. Please share your thoughts and critiques with me. 😄

A black robe on parchment bones, 

A sharp blade to reap the souls. 

It's the bony skeleton of Death, 

Known as the reaper in a grim myth. 

But how can this be more unfair? 

Who's got more bleakness to spare? 

Why symbolize the journey of a soul, 

With mere bones and the color of coal? 

Why indeed? How can that be said? 

If you ask me what I'd prefer instead, 

Is a jaded silk shawl on ivory skin,

That reflects the immortal soul within.

A journey to the eternal paradise, 

Where no more sufferings, no more demise. 

A hand that guides you to the promised land, 

Where fortunes to be described are too grand.

And a life too long that the world just seems, 

As a moment passed by in some night dreams.