Dying Away

My body bleeds today
The blood drips away
Drop by drop I lose life
The heart beat is fading away

Drip drip drip drip...
The vulgar innocent sound
The monotony puts me to sleep
The sound interrupts my dreams

A picture of a child
A snapshot of a house
A life lived ages ago
All snap back into my mind

I see no vultures
Those which are swooping around.
I see no rodents
Those which are scuttling behind.

I feel my flesh tearing away
The sudden burning sensation
Is it sudden or was it constant?
Who cares, I know I'm being devoured.

I stay still, obsolete
My limbs fail to move
All the energy is channelised one way
All being saved for a memory.

The child was me once
Once I was a child
I owned a house once
Once a home was called mine

No more, no more
Nothing exists anymore
I have lost all
All is lost now

My body was the only asset
I had owned for a very long time
Now even that is being torn away
Inch by inch, drop by drop at a time.