Inevitable Journey Poem by Marvin Brato Sr

Having suffered a chronic illness
often depleting causing weakness
sweat, hypertension, and coughing
pneumonia infected lungs nagging
inside out each breath a labored pain
traversing the body pulling life to drain
as though being sucked down to drown
little by little high hopes seem to shrink
into an ember glow that goes to the brink
zeroing to nil giving away all the dreams
and the wishes one has molded into beams
to which direction we try to work with focus
in this sole confinement life becomes bogus
on this earth no one is invincible against death
now is the time to reflect before the final wreath.