MIND AND BODY – BROKEN BODY

 

How cruel

What callous vindictiveness

So unutterably spiteful

Perpetrated by the Supreme Being?

Part of some master plan

Or predestined by the fates

The roll of a dice

It’s unimportant who

Or why

It’s just a waste

Such a waste

Trapping an incisive mind

So razor sharp

Of such brilliance

Trapping it mercilessly

In a slowly decaying shell

Irrevocably diseased

The body wasting

Unable to walk

Even to talk

Unable to eat unaided

Or use the toilet

Lost control

And lost dignity

All the time the mind astute

Until finally only the mind remains

Then as on an old TV screen

Everything fades to a white dot

Then nothing