Transition

Another ancient, unpublished one. The topic (death) is always a current issue, and how our industry and society deal with it.

Little Room for Hope

He suffered very long

From a well known rare disease

As he lay so still for many weeks and weeks,

There was little room for hope

And his family couldn’t cope

As his life ebbed slowly from a hundred leaks,

He had fifty different doctors

With a thousand interventions

Yet they couldn’t tame the nature of the beast,

His family suffered silently

To the depths of dark depression

Till their loved one packed his bags and headed east.

Now I know I’m very certain

That when it’s time to close the curtain

I wouldn’t want heroic measures for my mother,

Thus, the moral of this story

Is we gotta look at death

As a transition from just one place to another.

1995