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Finally with my last breath

I whispered softly, "It's time to rest"

My aching pains are since long gone

My mind at ease, my spirits wane

As they sit and listen with careful ears

My breath is fading, causing pain filled tears

The echoes of anguish and hurt ringing in my head

For just this instant I'd wish to be dead

My breathing shallow, my skin growing cold

It's almost over, but I'm not even old

This life I lead, I'll be leaving now

Was it as fruitful as I'd have liked? How?

Nobody ever cared for me, but now I see the truth

It was I that shut my doors, I was ignorant in my youth

So now I lay here, thinking about my past

While the others are watching, for the breath that will be my last

My time here, I feel, wasn't so pointless after all

I have friends and family that love me, and I love them all

I feel almost special, knowing that I am loved

But that matters not, I have never mothered

My life flashes before me, the machines start screaming

I hear the cries of those that are so surrounding

The weeping and tears that bring everyone so close

Are stifling enough to wake from comatose

But alas, not my fate, I breathed my last breath

The last thought about me . . . was I had never experienced birth . . .

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