This Poem was Submitted By: Beth A Rogers On Date: 2002-07-03 23:15:00 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Away From Home

His eyes glazed,  a marble stare  unable to focus  on his bride's face.  Mechanical sounds  pulsing and breathing,  drape life in a web   of wires and tubes.  His fingers, clenched   by pain, in courtship  fluttered a fiddle's neck  like hummingbird wings.  Her fervent prayers,   attempts to wake him  are turned back   with wheezy sighs.  Her right hand enfolds  his left, faceless forms  still the machines.  She closes his eyes  to clear his view,  in silence, released. 

Copyright © July 2002 Beth A Rogers


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