Last Life in Death (RETRO) - edit 2

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What must it be to drift unpeacefully
while recognizing nurse nor child nor bed–   not recognizing nurse or child or bed?
for soul to churn when memory has fled,       while soul must churn....?
to see and search and veer meaninglessly–
trapped in a breathing body, nearly dead?
Vain steeplechasing thoughts found neither name
nor definition when strange visions came,
unhelped by words those gathered wrote or said.            Seems like these lines should be present tense, like the previous and following lines.
Yet, though the mind is lost, it feels the same
emotion from its living body - fear
of all its organs touch and see and hear                         Just didn't understand this bit
bereft of sense within its failing frame.
Someone will need to close your fearful eyes
and wonder if she’ll panic as she dies.

Hi Duke, been away in the mountains where I could read, but not successfully comment as I have trouble manipulating text in Pig Pen on my iPhone.  But wanted to and have been rereading this frequently.  I know you've addressed the nor/or business, but just adding my 2 cents/sense.  Lovely piece of work.

TqB