Days and nights keep passing fast
Seasons come and go at warp speed
it’s hard to keep up with the changes.
Sometimes he thinks to himself
I’m just hanging around here
waiting to finally die with dignity.
He believes the afterlife will offer
him a better deal than inhabiting
an old body that is breaking down.
He worries he could live longer
than he wants to and be
sentenced to die in the indignity
of a nursing home institution
indifferent to his dementia-ridden self.
Bob Boyd