Life Is An Illness

 

If life is an illness

and death the cure

that brings eternal peace

what then do I gain

by waiting a lifetime to be healed?

 

The pleasures of life can only offer

temporary relief

the moments of laughter are outnumbered

by those of grief

 

The present of life was placed in my hands

without my consent

I’m trapped in a prison of flesh and blood

until the very end