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fighting back the fears
of losing you always
illusive as giant spiders
crawling over me
on the attack..ATTACKING
talking to you calmly
joking about tomorrows
amidst sterile sheets
IV lines needle piercing
driP, drIP, DRIPPING
watching your eyes
close beneath the shining
BRIGHT hospital lights
you seem SO very small
but only to me
glancing as attendants
wheel people by their
surgery already done
time goes by the
clock ticK, tiCK, TICKING
purple hospital gown
images of teddy bears
my heart beating
against my rib cage
thump…THUMPING
you lay before me waiting
and…one minute here
…the next one gone
time mediates anxiety
’til i see you smile again
© November 2012
Renee Espriu
My daughter had a successful surgery to remove surgical clips left from a surgery some 14yrs ago now and is doing well. The doctor who did the surgery has since disappeared (you hear about this happening to people you don’t know) but my daughter is now happy that perhaps she can get on with life. These are the things that went through my mind before her surgery.
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