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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2007-01-05 10:55 AM

We won’t feed the hungry –
we’ll steal food from the starving –
if there’s a profit in it, of course.

We’ll plan for war and start wars;
we’ll destroy and kill at will–
if there’s profit in this too, of course.

But that’s not all the horror
we are capable of doing to life
for in the “rich” worlds –
bodies: comatose, decrepit, mostly dead
are kept in disrespectful half-life;
in pain and extended misery;
at great cost to the social treasury
while the embodied beg to be allowed to depart.
Is this just about money for physicians
and assorted drug makers or is there more to it?

The first question is:
Why is self-chosen euthanasia “wrong” –
but a war that kills millions “right”?
Why can I not choose my own time
to leave this world?
Who has the power, let alone the right
to judge such a sacred private choice?

I feel my time on earth nearing its end:
I contemplate faraway mountains
and long to cross over; to fly:
I have no fear of that unknown
beyond the setting of the sun.

And I think how nice, warm, loving,
it would be of my friends and close ones
to empathize with the desires of my heart
and encourage me to go “home.”
But it will not be so:
for Earth humans are frightened of death
perhaps almost as much
as they fear to be truly alive!

wredgranny
Member

since 2006-11-18

Posts 493
Ky. USA

1 posted 2007-01-05 02:19 PM

And I think how nice, warm, loving,
it would be of my friends and close ones
to empathize with the desires of my heart
and encourage me to go “home.”
But it will not be so:
for Earth humans are frightened of death
perhaps almost as much
as they fear to be truly alive!

Siyo Oginali perhaps only the spirit that walks the winds would understand it our choice alone,when,where,and how is we sing our death song!

granny!

Devious Intellectual
Member

since 2006-05-08

Posts 112

2 posted 2007-01-05 03:08 PM

liked the emotion i got from this one, some truths hidden in here,

liked this line
in pain and extended misery;
at great cost to the social treasury

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