Pain filled gasps, as the machine chimed on
Its rhythm the only sign of her life
She flitted thro’ reality and daze
She was courting death, the murky maze
She was on this bark, upon a frothy river
Of her memories both good and bad
The river flowed on, like the bygone days
Her childhood, her youth, her peaceful old age
All scenes flashing in her inner eye
Was it really so fast that time flown by?
She forced her heavy eye-lids open
For a look at the world in which she’d been
But the faint images vanish in thin air
As she is taken away from reality
The river flowed on; there came this place
Where is widened into the calm sea of eternity
She smiled serenely, when her last breath took leave
She passed away, leaving her kin to grieve…