What Am I Giving Up Poem by Rick Elpers

The sun came out today
bright and hot
It caught my attention 
Started me to wonder about where
I think I am 
in the slow progress of my 
humanity that staggers like a drunk
toward what others call
Getting Healed.
When that happens will I know,
 will you have to convince me,
as only you could acknowledge  
from experience with me,
 who I know better than I used to.
 The picture evolves darkly
 an uncertain future of having
dreamt of the possibilities,
Now withered