Hiding from the Call

They will take me

Already they come;

even as I breathe

they are waiting for me

to finish my dying

we old ones

take such

a long time.

To me I think she it talking about the spirits waiting on her to die but part of me think she is talk about something else. Line 30 leads me to believe that she has already had a near death experience. Line 31 is like they are waiting by her bedside for that last breath. In the poems it is almost like she is tring to run from the spirits. She wants people to hide her were they can't find her.