Soleless feet
Soleless feet
I schemed the four grey walls
As the nurse injected my arm steady
“Keep still sir” she said
As my head went down heavy
A lifeless grin shrugged off of my face
To a tireless reflection in the window pane
The hospital bed smelt the same ethylene oxide the usual scent
“How much could one pay,
Then again how much would it cost
Just to spend a day
Without my life hanging at a loss”
I paused to take breath as my years flashed by
Like pages in a book flipping before my very eyes
“Oh to feel the sun on my face,
Oh to never be fed with tubes
Oh to not rely on nurses
And never have medicine feuds”
Id lie mouth drooled out
And lips all soggy
With eyes that drooped a sad stare
And a body that failed me
“What had I done to deserve this
Where did I go wrong?
If and when I could wish myself free
Id live on every edge so easily”
I paved the hospital halls
With my jolly banter
Little did they know
I could never have a happy ever after
For what must a man like I dream
A life I’ve never much sought to see
With a host of my soul I call my body
One only wishes to be fulfilled and filled indeed with glee
A dream of just a day I get to taste the morning dew
Have my soleless feet feel again
Not worry of when my blood would be due
And to always feel a 10/10
But horror coasts the beds and my blankets
Knowing full well I don’t have my health on my sleeve
Pumpkin porridge again great at 3
Every day and yet again Must I take my dose so happily
No man knows how hard I fight
To stay alive and make it through the night
40 years young and still a kicking
No man knows the time is still ticking
In the invisible line for death we march
Without know how, when and such
Will we one day run out of hour
When dust we walk on soon will devour
Our flesh our bone our sad success
Our begged borrowed sold and sealed
In a writ put fourth by a collector
To sweep our frantic fancy
And waltz up right all dancy
Knowing not of when our time will come
And to what expanse should the costs of our lives debt succumb
About this poem
This poem is about the phrase “momento mori” it is also based off of an experience I’ve had when visiting my grandfather at the hospital and the inpatient next door who had no visitors on his visiting sheet but had been there for years who had had tubes to feed him yet was still very positive. The nurses would speak of how much of a lovely person he was and how funny he was but his family stopped visiting and so did his wife. This poem is to highlight how much we young people have the privilege of doing many things and living to the fullest yet taking the smallest of opportunities for granted - never fully understanding the concept of leaving this earth one day and hence why everyday should be celebrated with glee and without regret for what we take for granted is what many can only dream of (such as the inpatient next door to my grandfather). more »
Written on September 02, 2022
Submitted by furi679f on October 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,056 |
Words | 444 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
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