And Then They Came

July the fifth

and I scribe in his name

in ink and hope

and think I’ll go mad;

a whole month to wait

before we meet,

before we meet

on that dreadful day. 

This date has significance,

for him for me,

a sad anniversary of a time

when fate decreed

we both should be there

upon that street,

upon that street

when strangers came.

They came in ships

of brilliant gold,

the skies their sea

this Earth their shore

and how in awe we were

of tales they told

of how they would set us free,

release us from this hell of war.

We weary of the battle then

welcomed them with open arms,

these saviours from some distant world

who would quell our pain

and free us from our Earthly bonds

and they whispered in our ears their names

and their names are Yutha Nasia.

Twas some time ‘fore we realised

on some dreadful dawn

that although we, imperfect born,

deserved and so desired to live.

Yet Earth had changed

lost all humanity 

and man joined Yuthas’  battle cry:

Give the marred their rights 

and let them die!

Twas soon we lost all hope

as mankind slid down the slippery slope, 

and now we have no rights at all

and today we both received the call

and soon we shall be no more

as death waits for us at the door,

the door of Yutha Nasia.

Anna :o]

Victoria at dVerse asks us to consider time.  She writes:

Today, I invite you to consider calendars. You might want to look at your own Planner from 2013, choose a day and let it tell you a story. Or maybe, check out a wall calendar and let the art speak out to you (I’m looking at a little-known painting by van Gogh as I write this.) Consider time. What messages do you receive from the changing seasons? If you’re into astrology, perhaps you will find inspiration in one of the signs…your own or a loved one’s? How has the passing of the years (otherwise known as aging) affected or changed you?

I keep neither calendar nor diary as I just remember everything.  Well not strictly true as I forget birthdays and anniversaries’ – even forgot my son’s birthday twice – how bad is that.  But everything else I remember. 

So I just wrote a date and let it take me where it wanted – although I never expected where it took me.

I have great concerns regarding the slippery slope of what euthanasia has become and I may or may not have witnessed non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia.  Further reading can be found below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia  

http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/belgiums-culture-of-death.html

http://pjsaunders.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/belgiums-meteoric-rise-to-become.html

Image: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The euthanasia machine was created by Dr Philip Nitschke