TERMINAL LUCIDITY

 

helpless and hopeless 

I lay rigid and stiffened

no need for words to soothe and comfort 

I am but already gone 

like a vegetable, immobile 

abandoned and cared-less about 

in my eyes is a beaming light

of a world I so much have dreamed to live  

just like everyone else, I knew love 

loved and cared for without blemish 

but life has a scripted plot for each soul 

mine, a tragedy beyond my existence 

my dreams cut short, terminal illness 

sent my jet nosediving 

here I am, no option but bedridden 

this life is not worth living 

this sickness has come to stay 

never knew there will come this day 

dining with death this close 

my clock ticks faintly, I’m done

this sudden outburst in me 

I recognize this little energy 

welcome! terminal lucidity  

I know my time is up 

@talk2leigh

(X & insta)

9:11am

19 April 2026