Having suffered a chronic illness <br />often depleting causing weakness <br />sweat, hypertension, and coughing <br />pneumonia infected lungs nagging <br />inside out each breath a labored pain <br />traversing the body pulling life to drain <br />as though being sucked down to drown <br />little by little high hopes seem to shrink <br />into an ember glow that goes to the brink <br />zeroing to nil giving away all the dreams <br />and the wishes one has molded into beams <br />to which direction we try to work with focus <br />in this sole confinement life becomes bogus <br />on this earth no one is invincible against death <br />now is the time to reflect before the final wreath.<br /><br />Marvin Brato Sr<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/inevitable-journey/
