How do I feel seeing those elderly people?

living in a nursing home; helpless

most of them are in their wheel chairs

others are bedridden; decrepit

and some have Alzeimer’s disease.

How do I feel seeing them suffer?

like someone I visited this evening

those two nuns who used to be active

dynamic and creative in their ways.

How do I feel seeing others in pain?

some cry and have mood swings

they don’t know who they are

they just look at you as you are.

How do I feel seeing them soiling?

one has just notified the nurse

about his accident in his pants

‘tis really something to realize

they’re helpless like a child.

How do I feel seeing their loved ones?

watching them as they’re fragile

unable to say what they’ve in mind

a real experience to understand.

How do I feel when that time comes?

as I’ll be old like them without assurance

a man to be ripe in his age, thus far

oh, it’s the future that still has to come.

How do I feel when I pass on to life?

as eternity may speak to me directly

like a friend of mine who died suddenly

I leave it to God, the author of my life.

As faith makes me rely on God’s promise

resurrection towards the end in the life hereafter

His message of hope for all who believe in Him

a consolation, a gift that I’ll treasure more.

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