Readiness Is All (Variant Of End) Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

If my life is drawing fast to a close,
So be it: I have lived it well, full,
And happily. Is there a pose in this?
Might be. So what? No-one else is hurt.

I did an angioplasty at fifty-nine,
And five years later now,
I have symptoms as before,
Rising up to alert me while walking.

Pain in front below shoulder-blades,
While walking then in Lodhi Garden
In New Delhi, stone's-throw
From my home at C1/1 there.


That had led Maya to monitor me
From Goa. Can fit one more stent
To prolong life again a bit -
But then, there has to be an end.

I feel that when the purpose for which
I am living is only to live and nothing else,
It is easy for me to go on the long voyage,
And bid farewell without any regret.