I am at the end.
As my life draws to its close,
I struggle to remember the violence of faith which once I thought I had.

As I lie in a hospital bed, with blood dripping into me,
drop by drop replacing my own thin and weary fluids
with the vitality of someone else,
I know that it will not last.

My life is draining away faster than it can be sustained.

I face the ultimate challenge,
yet I am no longer sure that there is a challenge to face.
Is this all that there is?

Life and then.....