Time rests in stillness It weighs yet levitates Laments in my sickness It’s so scarce others negate Bearing the black cells Their lab rat coined body and soul My valiant struggle towards death Shadows baneful regrets I toll And in my last minute breath I realise Life, death, it’s no play to set stage No news feed, rat race or lottery Fearful barriers to downstage (Too late) to learn the simple line ‘To suffer not suppress’ Pain signifies Insipid being undressed So pause in my passing And grasp what I should have known Feeble triumphs mean nothing When we all die alone