Final Decision Poem by Amanda Reid

As I watch the world around me pass by,
Everything is tainted as seen through my minds eye.
By an illness I have been affected,
from life I feel so disconnected.
seems as though with life I'm made to comply.

A darkness enclosed within my mind,
from happiness it has made me blind.
a façade I must wield,
From the suffering within I begin to yield.
By darkness I shall forever be confined.

My illness has control,
lost forever in within a black hole.
seems as though my options are little,
my grip on this life feels ever so brittle.
My body and mind has been taken whole.

When does a battle draw an end,
my wounds from this illness can never mend.
But wait, I have found a cure,
where at last this torture I shall no longer endure.
where beyond the suffering I shall transcend.

A decision I have now made,
fear not for I am not afraid.
For my final breath I now wait,
This path I know was my only fate
I now close my eyes, as the life in them begins to fade.

By Amanda Reid