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Euthanasia
Wife, where are you
Can you see me?
I can’t see you
Please come nearer
Hold me my darling
Let me die in your arms
My woman, my wife, my friend
Help me I want to go quickly
Out of that door
The door that swirls darkly
Inviting me away out of here
To a land, perhaps Eden
I just want to go
Allow me to leave now
I have done my part
I lived my life
I have sowed
I have reaped
I have multiplied
I have worshipped
I have blasphemed
And now I want to go
Leave this tired husk
This body honeycombed
By death
To keep it alive longer
Keeps me in screamy fear
For I no longer want it
Wife when they come with the needle
To make me feel all better and well
Tell them to plunge it deep
Tell them to empty it up
Tell them to add some more
Just so I won’t wake no more
Just let me peacefully go
Can you see me?
I can’t see you
Please come nearer
Hold me my darling
Let me die in your arms
My woman, my wife, my friend
Help me I want to go quickly
Out of that door
The door that swirls darkly
Inviting me away out of here
To a land, perhaps Eden
I just want to go
Allow me to leave now
I have done my part
I lived my life
I have sowed
I have reaped
I have multiplied
I have worshipped
I have blasphemed
And now I want to go
Leave this tired husk
This body honeycombed
By death
To keep it alive longer
Keeps me in screamy fear
For I no longer want it
Wife when they come with the needle
To make me feel all better and well
Tell them to plunge it deep
Tell them to empty it up
Tell them to add some more
Just so I won’t wake no more
Just let me peacefully go
Published 22nd Dec 2011
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22nd Dec 2011 00:47am
22nd Dec 2011 00:49am
But very true.. You captured the moment between a dying man and what he would say to his beloved...
22nd Dec 2011 1:31am
Thanks dear Chandler for reading and commenting. When I wrote this I was in goosebumps and my eyes teared up. It was like I lived through the man's pain. OMG. Thanks again.
22nd Dec 2011 10:30am
Moment of truth...when the way out of sadness is to make those u luv sad,dissipating ur pain and making their's bad....nice one
22nd Dec 2011 2:32pm
22nd Dec 2011 6:35pm
Touching verses on a painfull subject difficult to argue.
Hard to see the poetry in assisted death.
You were brave writing those lines.
Hard to see the poetry in assisted death.
You were brave writing those lines.
22nd Dec 2011 11:17pm
Luca, dear. When you see someone who is dying and in extreme pain, you pray to God..please take him. But if we are him...I think we will pray, God please take me now! Thanks for reading and commenting.
Anonymous
12th Feb 2012 2:20am
Grace - I only read this poem on EUTHANASIA after I wrote my own...I did not want to be influenced in any way as I search for my own voice...
You have a very fine poem which brings home the message about euthanasia in a very effective way...that even the relatives are discouraged when they see their loved ones suffer.
Thank you for being a trailblazer.
You have a very fine poem which brings home the message about euthanasia in a very effective way...that even the relatives are discouraged when they see their loved ones suffer.
Thank you for being a trailblazer.
12th Feb 2012 2:43am
Choices play a great part, Kitty. He did not want to make his wife suffer by seeing him in that condition so he asked her for help: and he was in pain: he wants to go. I dont know whether it is suicide in a way and the man might get buried at crossroads...but pain is a great motivater: be it illness or of the heart. Thank you: for listening with your heart.
