'Thought and sight remain'

Japanese maple

Japanese maple

“Your death, near now, is of an easy sort.

So slow a fading out brings no real pain.
Breath growing short
Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain
Of energy, but thought and sight remain:

Enhanced, in fact….’’

— From “Japanese Maple,’’ by Ciive James (1939-2019), an Anglo-Australian writer

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