Thanks for sharing this poem concerning the personification of death. You do a good job of conveying a very threatening entity. The description is certainly appropriate in view of all the suffering that death inflicts on mankind via depriving them of loved ones and leaving them with grief and only fading memories. In Greek mythology there was a boatman that ferried the dead into hades across the River Styx. I wonder whether the Grim Reaper idea is derived from it.
But the grim reaper you describe has a soft side towards cocoa.
Well, to me that doesn't diminish his other aspects one bit.
It's like telling me that Vlad the impaler liked to eat chocolate cake or that Jack the Ripper enjoyed eating chocolate ice cream.
Suggestion
A shroud-attired skeleton
A smile that would terrify:
Dracula? The creature from the black Lagoon? Frankenstein's Monster?
Being specific would be stronger.
I would delete "ïn a head"
All in all a very enjoyable and entertaining poem as are all that you write. Looking forward to reading more of your work.
Grim Reaper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(personification)
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