===Poems, Prose and Writings about death === [[http://lastwords.uk/fudforum/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=9&|Join discussion]] This is an area where we can share writing that has helped us. Please go to the forum and post a poem, piece of prose or writing which could be helpful to others. We will then be able to put them on this part of the website. Thanks ===You cannot hurry death=== ----- You cannot hurry death It has its own time Its own season ----- Even when life is thin, frail and achingly hard You cannot hurry death. ----- Thin skeletal man Just a breath in a sheath of skin and bones ----- But still that breath continues In and out Measuring the last moments of life and being ----- How do we free ourselves from our painful carcasses when they are exhausted and spent? ----- The soul valiantly Showing glimmers of itself, like a spark of light through a dense gorse bush of redundant bones. ----- How the soul must long to be free To rise up and fly again Unencumbered by the trappings of an ancient body ----- And yet there is a deep affection for being here in this world A place we know People whose lives have touched us and who we have touched ----- At some stage the call to freedom Must be heard and not resisted ----- At some stage the shackles of the body can be sloughed off Like a snake losing its skin - too small too itchy and not fit for purpose anymore ----- Then when one abandons the thin thread of hope that bind the soul ----- Only then can the future Whatever that might be Open and blossom ----- Maxine Green ----- ===There is no need – ode to a dying man=== There is no need to say the words The heart beat is enough ----- There is no need to mend the future The past was ample and enough ----- There is no need to press the flesh When the souls beat together that is enough ----- There is not need, when the beat of the soul is loud and clear There is no need…… it is enough ----- Maxine Green