To cough and cough until the coughing stops,
To gasp and wheeze until your breathing stops,
To clutch and claw until your grasp does fail,
To grow colder and colder until your face grows pale,
To shut your eyes until the world blacks out,
To open them wide to find its still blacked out,
To quiver and shake with every bolt of pain,
To quiver and shake and to be left insane,
To sigh and moan at the pain within,
TO grumble and groan at the hurt within,
To slip into a void when its time to sleep,
To slip into a void thats black dark and deep,
To unbecome from core to crust,
From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust.

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this is something akin to "dust to dust" which i had written earlier. only that this was written after yet another sleepless night of coughing my lungs out.