October 20, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is illnesses and disabilities.
Today’s poem is a number poem for a woman who is being kept
alive by drugs.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Eighty-eight spends much of life in bed,
Interred beyond her time in drugs and pain.
Grateful only for the gift of sleep,
Having lost the will to laugh or weep,
The shrunken doll repeats just one refrain,
Yearning for the comforts of the dead.
Even so, the trail of pills has led
Into a world she grapples with in vain,
Grasping for a grace she cannot keep,
Harsh and vivid hauntings of the brain
That make of life a stew of joy and dread.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/88.html.
For more poems about health and illness, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/healthpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Illnesses and Disabilities
October 16: I Want to Live
October 17: I’m Sorry I Can’t Tell You What
October 18: Linda
October 19: Breanna
October 20: Eighty-Eight
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