It’s near time to leave for the unknown

(For a friend living with cancer)

It’s time to leave for the unknown

Time when past years skid in my head

Time to shed burden of despair

From a mind where tears peak gut

Ignorance is no virtue for one dying

I choose contentment in knowing nothing

Gathering strength thinking and disregarding

Doubts in your eyes: my death foretold

I sign-off from your despondent sigh

I am very alive to see before me

A past glistening with vision of the undone

I have lived life, I brim of memories

Of past days. What I see these last days

Are smiles, chuckles, grins suppressed

My favourite people in their favourite places

Here, now, I sing and smile in future tense

Shutting these eyelids, sipping this life. Slowly.