Most of the poems deal with the theme of death, particularly that of unjust or early death.

Jimmie's unjust death was still too fresh, and everything surrounding it too unbelievable and tangled.

And another young man suspect of a thing far out of his scope, who must not die a similarly unjust death.

Was it better to die pursuing a dream than to meekly accept an unjust death?

Every man and woman of Mistworld has sworn to avenge her foul and unjust death.

I've just delivered you from the jaws of a very unjust death.

No one fears an unjust death.

The unjust death of a child, for instance.

You don't brood about unjust death, sickness, murder, war?

Such ghosts are usually the spirits of victims of a wrong that has resulted in a cruel, unnatural or unjust death.