She is a brain-injured patient, <br />so gaunt with sunken eyes, cheek bone prominent. <br />Fate had stricken her relentless. <br />For many years, she has been lying flat, <br />in the nursing home air-inflated bed. <br />Her eyes filled with sorrow so sad. <br />Bed-sores are raw in her back. <br />Through naso-gastric tube, she is being fed. <br />Her limbs are thin with muscle in contracture. <br />Her urine is drained out by a Foleys catheter. <br />Her bowel movement is assisted by enema. <br /> <br />Her eyes always looking at the photos, <br />of her daughter and herself in duo. <br />pasted at the ceiling, <br />so that she can see from the morning, <br />until late night almost without blinking. <br />Her beautiful photos are hung on the wall, <br />making her eyes gleam more and more. <br />She was once as beautiful as a famous model. <br />Now she is like a dry flower petal. <br /> <br />It was said, <br />her husband was so violent, <br />Against the wall he bumped her head. <br />So severe her brain profusely bled. <br />She was saved from the jaw of death. <br />The tragedy started as a petty quarrel, <br />which turned into a great anger. <br />The final outcome so severe, <br /> nothing could compare. <br /> <br />Now she is like a vegetable, <br />her husband in jail as prisoner. <br /> <br />(vegetable =vegetative state)<br /><br />U Win Kyi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-crime-2-violence-caused-vegetative-state/
