The Last One

My back aches

Like a tired lion

As I crave

My elephant grave

My head swells

Like oceans deep

Ankles break

As I creep

Hunched shoulders

Cracking bones

Though I sit still

My body moans

My sagging skin

Now monotint

Creases

Paper thin

So now I know

Once I did not

My furrowed brow

Tells a lot

For yesteryear

Was my lot

Lived without fear

Didn’t give a jot

Yet my memories

Are fading fast

I can’t recall

Things of past

Friends petered out

They’ve all gone

No one left

I’m the only one

And now my time

Is near its end

It’s only now

I comprehend

Now I know

Once did not fear

End of life

Is nearly here