Gently to My Death

erwinkennythomas on Dec 9, 2011

Tags: elderly, Nottingham Hill, wheelchair

An elderly person is despondent about her life and wishes her caregiver to roll her a down Nottingham Hill in a wheel-chair to put an end to it.

I’m old and tired

My face has become grotesque

Wrinkled and covered

With hills and valleys

- – -

My hands are filled with calluses

Through the hard work

I’ve done

Over the course of 90 years

- – -

I’m simply not what

I use to be

I’m immobile

Can’t take care of myself

And I feel like a vegetable

- – -

Every place I go

I’ve to be in a wheel-chair

Someone has to help me

Get out of the car

And push me

Up and down Nottingham Hill

Where I live

- – -

I plead

“Why don’t you just let

me go after we reach

the top of this hill

so I may roll gently

to my death?”

- – -

“I wish to end this misery

that I presently endure”

- – -

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wonder on Dec 9, 2011
A sigh, we can relate.
reiny on Dec 9, 2011
all things will happen in the right time
reiny on Dec 9, 2011
all things will happen in the right time
reiny on Dec 9, 2011
all things will happen in the right time
reiny on Dec 9, 2011
all things will happen in the right time
pattiann on Dec 9, 2011
You seem to give the exact feeling of some elders. Good poem
Yvhes P. on Dec 9, 2011
as usual very nice poem =)
Angelji on Dec 9, 2011
Oh no don’t say like that ,life is so beautiful to live with and you are so talented , your poems are powerful , it reaches to many and it inspires a number … More power man !
megamatt09 on Dec 9, 2011
It happens to all.
mphsglo on Dec 9, 2011
My grandmother was about 100 when she died, One of the last things she said was that she wished she could just go. I can only imagine how she felt, because she had a good life. But, it was a long one, maybe a little too long.
papaleng on Dec 9, 2011
I can relate to this one though I am only on my fifties.. This is the agony of life.
dwisuka on Dec 9, 2011
I’m touched
MountainGirl on Dec 9, 2011
What can I say. This is life, you are born, you grow up and before you know it, you are gone.
Ruby Hawk on Dec 9, 2011
I can well imagine how the old woman feels.
indianwriting on Dec 10, 2011
this reminds me of my article about euthanasia
http://socyberty.com/issues/euthanasia-16/
gaby7 on Dec 10, 2011
An elderly person is repository of knowledge-as long as they still live and think, be they vegetables or not, we want them alive in our amidst!
Aroosa Gloomy on Dec 10, 2011
dark and sad
ittech on Dec 10, 2011
Im but not what

I use to be

Im immobile

Cant take control of myself

And I touch like a herb

great one thanks beauty fully crafted
Martin Kloess on Dec 10, 2011
something like that
PR Mace on Dec 12, 2011
How deeply sad.
AINIEE on Dec 13, 2011
nice

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