To Die, To Sleep...No Perchance To Dream! Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Can I go suddenly?
Not fall ill, be helpless
And drag it out in pain
And dependence?

Expenses in time and resources,
Avoided, knowing full well
I have lived my life,
Got whatever I wanted, achieved.

What happens in deep sleep,
Or in meditation if ever I manage -
The Shunyata that Buddha talks of,
Is to be preferred - to ICU or OT.

If liabilities for parents or children
Remain, it is different: our parents gone, .
Only child married, employed, and wife smart;
I'm free as the sky, I'd like to merge in it.