A KIND OF KINDNESS

A KIND OF KINDNESS

Personal and professional leanings

Can help decide the sufferer’s fate

Never the skewed politician’s voice

Playing no part in another’s choice

Should the time be now or just wait

As kindness has different meanings

What is all this about pressure to die

Or even guilt about being dependent

Timely death can mean now or later

But who then should be adjudicator

Not just some overworkled attendant

Nor if a situation when no rules apply

Maybe it’s too early for a termination

As there will be much to think upon

There’s sympathy in the mix somehow

And a bit more time, one might allow

It will be too late when they are gone

And it risks causing much perturbation

Dilemmas of untreatable constant pain

For individuals and caring relatives too

Is the costly Zurich trip really required

When a local solution is to be admired

But in the end, if it should ever be you

I would sooner be with you once again