Christopher Flaherty Poet Free verse

Unplug the Machines and Let Death Come Naturally

When and if the time should ever
come when all is said and that can
be has been done

And the only signs or form of life
that remains is being kept alive
via electronic machines

Believing he could no longer or would
wish to fight on otherwise he surely
would have 

Then gather round all that loved this
poor soul whilst still alive for 1 last
final remaining time

Unplug the tubes that aid them breathe
switch off the whaling pinging machines 
signaling heartbeat arithmetics

Disconnect the saline solution glucose
drip colostomy bag and statistics patches
covering them from head to toe 

Release them from their comatose state
and living nightmare 

For this is life in name only alive but
not alive to the world 

And rather let all their dreams come true
forevermore and after that day too as
well

And in so doing so let also the living move
on to not join them in their daily grief and
pain as well

To celebrate life not just only death

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