What Will It Be Like

What will it be like when my eyes begin to fade
and darkness enters my world?
My life will change
for much of what I love will be gone.
Then I will need someone to guide me.
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What will it be like when my ears close down
and silence enters my world?
The sounds of my loved ones
will come only as a memory.
I will need to learn how to feel their love.
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What will it be like when my legs give way

and I move to chairs with wheels?
Then I cannot go where once I could
nor feel the soil upon which I stood.
Someone will have to help me move.
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What will it be like when my health is gone
and an end is close at hand?
Then I will ask if I deserved this life
knowing full well I have not.
No one can help me here – I must do this alone.
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And then I will be free once more.  q