THE PAIN
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I can see the pain in your eyes
The resolve in your labored breath
You have made peace with the inevitable
Morphine your parachute, slowly you float , to your death
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This journey in life a long road
Every step a reminder of your pain
You never deserved this retched disease
But throughout you held your head up without shame
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Never would I have the strength
To carry on so long and hard
but now I am relieved
the pain is gone
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There are so many people on Hospice care throughout the United States. There is so much pain, so much family unity, I wish the best for everyone going threw this tramatic time in there life and death.
))))))))Peacefrog
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We all have to face death sometime. Isn't it part of the battle to face it with as much courage as we can? Do the best we can? I like the above poem. It speaks from the heart.
lt4
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This is beautiful, but it implies there is a right way to do this. It almost sounds good though, a really sweet insight. I wish I had written this. ~Cooker
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Cooker, I think your comment about "a right way to do this" is excellent. But isn't it nobler to do it the best a person can? Than to sniffle and make hell around oneself? Volumes have been written about dying bravely from war to cancer. And I agree with you. There's no pretty way to die. Still, I think a person has to do the best they can. And that's what I read this poem to say. Cooker, if you are a poet, and I don't know cause I've never seen your work, if you are, why not write a poem about someone who dies badly?
lt4