no ruin can come to me

my status is fully secure

parameters are normal

air-supply made secure

 

warm feelings suffusing

my body and its pain

voices echo far away

fever roasts my brain

 

images memories of old

before me life's flashing

re-living old times amid

a future thats crashing

 

all I have is in thoughts

vegetable activity level

limbs still but sliding

no more gaily to revel

 

once I loved and walked

laughed at others jokes

made plans, anticipated

the fire ambition stokes

 

bodily function usurped

the throb of machinery

eyes taped so no more

heart-warming scenery

 

lungs heaving strangely

ward reels and bending

life splintered by tubes

amid plastic my ending