Still a beauty Yet I know that your lifeline has been cut That though you still breathe You already belong to death You aren’t yet faded But you are fading And Time- he soon will leave your side As you will in turn leave us We who are now realizing Between womb and tomb We came from earth Then to work the earth Until we are buried in our precious earth Now realizing that as we grow older Our time is constantly growing smaller We are all slowly dying Arriving on hospital beds Then leaving how we came Frail, helpless, afraid On a hospital bed.
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