Desperation.
Driven by disease
more clever than our hands,
you elude our grasp.
Come back.
Poison,
fighting for the soul
courses through your veins,
while the dusk
consumes the mind
of your decay.
Do you hear me calling?
Forsaken by a beast deceiving,
your breaths remains unmarred.
Spared by fiendish mercy,
your heart beats
undisturbed beneath the curtain
of a vacant shell.
I know you hear me calling.
I know you’re still there.
Perhaps our love will bring you back.
Come back to us.
Categories: All Poetry, Medical Poetry, Medicine, Poetry by Phoebe
Reblogged this on League of the Grey and commented:
I’ve re-posted your poem to my Facebook pages and my ‘Geriatrics and Gerontology’ group. Thank you.