Existing
TIME does not stand still,
Yet I am treading water
Like a shipwrecked sailor
Who refuses to die.
I do not seek death,
Though it stalks the world
Like a hungry ghost that
Is envious of the sentient.
Do not take away
My wilful breath and
Send me to a silent grave:
Give me a life worth living.
© Troy Southgate, 14.VII.25