Living Well

Your living will harden
As there’s more time to kill each cell
Each day that you dwell
On a sense of life that threatens
Response will little regard
On a sense of pain against which God is no guard
And I pray for you as you asked me to
But still I wonder what good it will do
I pray for you as you told me to
Even though I know it does
No good will come from this
No thought could ever defend
A body that lies in conscious decay
If I could sign my name
With the fluid that comes from my bones
If I could sign over half of myself
I’d do it for you
You’d never ask me to
But still I’d wonder what good it would do
I’d do it for you
As you told me not to
Even though I know it does no good
For your living will
No good for living well
'Cause your god
For your living will
Is no good for living well