And then when it comes to you <br />A choke in the throat <br />The world swimming around you <br />Lucky indeed to lie down and not fall <br />Fortunate if they get you to the hospital. <br /> <br />Once there please learn to keep grinning <br />Grinning learn to be amused <br />You are not in control <br />Nor are they who strip you off everything <br />That identifies you as a person <br />Please metamorphose into the patient <br />You never thought you would ever be. <br />All over you the wires <br />And overhead the monitor. <br /> <br />You learn of what is going on <br />Where you are I mean <br />For a laugh Is someone getting out alive, <br />Nurses’ whispers the wardboys hustle <br />Hiss of wheels rolling out…. <br />Another hopeful who came <br />Never to hold another’s hand <br />Ever, ever again.<br /><br />uday balakrishnan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/helpless-2/
