Forgotten will...

A poem about a person who has given up the will to survive.

Forgotten will…

A Question is asked and a blank stare refuses to answer a call
Do your exercises, eat your veggies, get some sleep
I’m not always around to pick you up after you fall
Beside a coffin and a hole in the ground, I silently weep

The urge to live, to survive has long passed away
Dirty dishes, empty bottles and clothes all over the place
The only liquid to pass your lips cannot be consumed in a day
The only rescue I see is with God’s grace

You have lost your way and nothing will correct your wrong
So many pleads and your blank stare is not even willing to try
Every angle, every trick I have tried to make you strong
Beside a shrinking barely breathing body I cry.

If not for yourself bare with life if only for me
Your life is slipping away one day at a time
Like leaves falling from a tree…