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Lady Bere
Member

since 2000-02-03

Posts 73
Valmeyer, Illinois USA

0 posted 2000-02-12 04:43 PM

Terminal Death

See me not,
For in this vision I die.
Kill me not,
No matter how I cry.

The joy of life
Now replaced with pain.
Excruciating, unbearable,
Driving me insane.

No doctor's majick
No mother's kiss,
To cure the hurt
Or send me bliss.

Each day I am less
The pain is more,
Strong I once was
Now I am no more.

In the final days,
Life will be pain.
No happy memories
For the final sleep.

Stabbing pain!
My body screams!
And still ahead
Lies no relief.

Agony rises higher
But still I live on.
The blinding pain,
All I know anymore.

Doctors prolong life
With cures for many.
Yet I am dying,
A slow painful death.

There is no cure,
No chance for redemption.
I must die slowly,
No escape, no aide.

Someday you will learn
After life there is death.
Help some to live,
Give others peaceful rest.

My father recently died a slow painful death by cancer and now my grandfather dies the same way. He asked me why we can prolong life, but not make death less painful. This is the expression of my anger for his and my father's deaths. Not that they must die, but how. Both cancers are terminal.

Without darkness there is no light
Without the light we cannot see the dark
Balance...It heals the soul -- by: LB

RobertB
Senior Member

since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

1 posted 2000-02-12 06:55 PM

I am so sorry...my father died when I was 8 of lung cancer....he was 32.

Robert

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

2 posted 2000-02-12 07:34 PM

So sorry to hear this. One of my personal hopes is someday every person who dies can die painlessly in their sleep. No one should have to endure such torture. A hard time for you and your family. (HUGS)

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
~Isis~
(Sovereign of the Spirit)

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

3 posted 2000-02-12 07:59 PM

Lady B...beautiful poem about a very painful subject, the poem is superb with emotion and smooth flowing rhyme...
for your loss I am too very sorry...and I understand.
take care, janet marie

Lady Bere
Member

since 2000-02-03

Posts 73
Valmeyer, Illinois USA

4 posted 2000-02-13 01:31 PM

Thank you all.
While writing doesn't take away the pain and anger, it helps me to deal with it as I must.

Without darkness there is no light
Without the light we cannot see the dark
Balance...It heals the soul -- by: LB

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