Silence broken by a hushed converse <br />Breaking news of comma's reverse <br /> <br />Alien aura of tubes and stands <br />Silent heave swollen glands <br /> <br />Muffled giggle kids gleam <br />Gramps tries a silent beam <br /> <br />Hardly suit, infirm and sick <br />Elegant floor, ceramic slick <br /> <br />Fallen off a dizzying sledge <br />Ill at ease in a plastered leg <br /> <br />Distant bout of rasping cough <br />Chastised attendant off in a huff <br /> <br />Purple bruises of attempted drips <br />Stand out sharply from shiny clips <br /> <br />Divergent forms with baggy attires <br />Crouched nurse maneuvering wires <br /> <br />His quivering lips and shaking hands <br />How surreally fight the restraining band <br /> <br />Some blood be drawn for the endocrines <br />Whispered whoosh of support machines <br /> <br />A starched prong on the matron's head <br />Declining spinster, should have wed <br /> <br />(Islamabad) <br />(June 24,2009) <br /> <br />Centre justified the lines assume the shape of a flower vase… <br />….signifying hope!<br /><br />saadat tahir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/by-father-s-bedside-hospital-musings-25-june/
