Life Slipping Away

by Roy Huddleston

I promise I did not know what to say,

When my time began to pass away.

It was so cold and moved so slow,

I was slithering down and did not know.

My mind slipped into an intense fog,

I could no longer struggle in this mystic bog.

Somehow I lost the ability to dream,

My thoughts slipped through a deepening seam.

No longer able to love the ones so dear,

My life became uncertain and not so clear.

With the final question mark oh so near,

How it would turn out did not easily appear.

With life so difficult a question was hard to ask,

Every moment was a monumental task.

Energy gone and a pitiful life fading away.

Would I still be here yet another day?

An exercise in futility is life without hope,

It's a downhill run on a snowy slop.

For the cliff's inevitable shot into the unknown,

Too weak to change and too quiet to groan.

Somebody tell me, somebody explain.

Why the life force is being drained?

I don't know why I am in this declining state?

I've never been here and I don't know how to relate.

Could it be possible the end is ever so near,

I have no control and do not know what will appear.

Life is slowly departing and is now slipping away,

Exhausted with no energy I have nothing else to say.

Roy Lee Huddleston Jr. 7/21/98

Just after looking at my hospital picture of 7/97

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