A burden to the kind and noble
I now depend on other people
I did not want to feel the stroke
which left me paralysed and stuck
making noises instead of words
blurting out sounds that sound absurd
but I know what they’re meant to mean
although I’m now a dud machine
and cannot move with motor skills
now brain is damaged in the skull
from lack of oxygen and blood
my face collapsed and mind went dead
it felt like sudden suicide
and sometimes now I wish I’d died.
