George Bascom - Death Poems

George Bascom (1927 - 1993) was a surgeon/poet from Manhattan, Kansas.  As he was dying of prostate cancer, he penned a few poems about death which are prescient and moving.

Here's one:
Incurable

Like a weathered barn in fading fog

death out there grows steadily more clear.

The dogged feet go on to

an inexorable détente.

Hope is a little fire

that flickers with uncertain light

beneath a boundless sky.

And I beside it drift

through night and day between

the peace of stone-deep rest

and aching wakefulness.

You can more find of Bascom's death poems on Docs-Google.