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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#972873 added January 7, 2020 at 11:12am
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I'm Sick Today (or everyday, depending)
Sequestered

I can see out the door of my room
and down the corridor to look
for the likes of you, as I am sequestered.
I need only look out my window
to view a charming village
where I could go,
should the likes of you inform I'm healed.
I return to my bed, slither in white sheets
The IV drips yellow concoction
in my once black veins.
Lovely nurses might distract with a visit,
change the sheets, feed me, fluff
an every-so-ready pillow.
Why not ignore the halls and vistas seen,
settle in and turn on the overhead tv?
I have health insurance
and the rest of my life.
Even if I'm dying here, I realize
nothing can hurt me anymore.
Even if the white coats do not arrive,
I have family who visit and see
how comfortably I thrive, feel at home.

No one has discharged me; many
have tested my blood pressure,
observed me perfectly fine --
even those unqualified.
Did they correct my illness
or do I mask the symptoms somehow?
Here, the nurse comes, checks my pulse,
takes other vitals. I imagine somewhere
a doctor or two looks over these charts.
Confused that I would take up residence here?

The thing is, I am placating children
playing their medicine game. Adorable
to think what they are doing is real.
I'm only too happy to play along.

But, should I be worrying,
for the other patients? Well,
I'm sequestered anyway.
How much harm?


I'm the eye doctor. Is this better?

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