Fear Of Death

I who enjoyed good health and gladness Am overwhelmed now by life's terrible sickness And enfeebled with mental infirmity How the fear of death. dismays me My presence here is mere vainglory The false world is a lot transitory The flesh is frail, the fiend runs free How the fear of death dismays me The state of man is changeable Now sound, now sick, now blithe, now dull Now manic, now devoid of glee How the fear of death dismays me No state on earth stands securely As the wild wind shakes the willow tree So wavers this world's vanity How the fear of death dismays me That strange despotic beast Tears from its mother's breast The babe full of benignity How the fear of death dismays me Life takes the champion of the hour The captain of the highest tower The beautiful damsel in her tower How the fear of death dismays me God spares no lord for his elegance Nor clerk for his intelligence A dreadful stroke no man can flee How the fear of death dismays me Artist, magician, scientist Orator, debater, theologist Must all conclude, so too as we How the fear of death dismays me In medicine the most astute Sawbones and surgeons all fall mute They cannot save themselves or flee How the fear of death dismays me I see the makers among the unsaved The greatest of poets all go to the grave God does not spare them their faculty How the fear of death dismays me There is no remedy for death We all must prepare to relinquish breath So that after we die we may be set free From the fear of death that dismays me

reefaman

I have a mental health illness and I was a inpatient in a private secure mental health hospital not because i was a danger to the public but because i myself was the only person who was in danger from me was myself and that will reflect in my poetry...

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