A reflection on the blurred boundaries between desire and death through the fundamental influence of Yukio Mishima on the work of Angélica Liddell. The Hagakure was Mishima's bedside book. Its maxim: 'Die anew each morning in thought, and you will not fear death.' What seems like a code of death is reframed in Liddell's poetry, which reads keenly between the lines: it is about holding a constant awareness of death in order to reach a transcendent state of freedom through which 'it is possible to fulfill the warrior's calling.'