if anything, a controversial subject
Since I have to die, just let me die,
and make it quick, do not prolong it,
I always hated sentimentalized farewells;
and death is painful too
and more so than enough,
so why then make it even more so
by postponing just a transfer
which can't be avoided anyway?
To die, to sleep, that's all,
and just not waking up again,
like freezing comfortably into an embalming snowdrift,
going gradually to sleep, quite slowly limb by limb,
like some mild anaesthetic slowing down life till it stops,
the softest death imaginable.
Yes, if there is no returning from the definite departure,
just make it quick then,
do not trouble me and keep me waiting,
for I will be in a hurry
when I can't use this life any more
to get into the next one.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-01-04 at 19:49
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Euthanasia
Since I have to die, just let me die,
and make it quick, do not prolong it,
I always hated sentimentalized farewells;
and death is painful too
and more so than enough,
so why then make it even more so
by postponing just a transfer
which can't be avoided anyway?
To die, to sleep, that's all,
and just not waking up again,
like freezing comfortably into an embalming snowdrift,
going gradually to sleep, quite slowly limb by limb,
like some mild anaesthetic slowing down life till it stops,
the softest death imaginable.
Yes, if there is no returning from the definite departure,
just make it quick then,
do not trouble me and keep me waiting,
for I will be in a hurry
when I can't use this life any more
to get into the next one.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 431 times
Written on 2007-01-04 at 19:49
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