When pain takes over

When pain takes over so unkind

and floods with dissonance in our mind

all things take on another light

All colours temporarily fade

their power bleached to shades

like jet black night

all textures once so sensitive

to touch by hand or body

now so slight

all thoughts distorted inside out

and muddled or befuddled

try as I might

all movements hindered false

so now I cannot waltz or dance

'tis such a plight

all vision blurred and melding

when before it was so crisp

my dying sight

all food becomes the same

no seasoning can help

try though I might

all drink flows down just as before

and wine its magic cure now gone

not quite

my body now descends to earth

its weight now unsupported

loosing height

my skin becomes so wizened

no more a sheen so nice

more like a blight

my mirrored image can't be true

I see myself anew

and what a fright

not grumbling as I near my end

the efforts not worth spending

so trite

my friends support me as they can

with poems, love and happy mien

all right

but soon no more my pains will conquer

as my end I near, but till then

I'll fight

and when I'm gone you'll hear my song

on winds that trees caress

you'll bless me 

out of sight.