Medicated Tranquility

This came to me when I was battling the ever recurrent cold...But I based it on what I would think as a life-threatening disease...

Ah, if only this could last forever

This medicated tranquility

This feeling of peace amongst the rough waves of hellish coughing

Where one need not think

 

Tell me, mother

"Is this what they call heaven?

If so, then I beg of you,

Let me stay,

Oh, let me stay a while...Forever."

 

I tire

I am sighing

"Why are you crying Father?

What are tears doing,

Dragging their way down Sister's pretty face?"

Can nobody tell me why there is so much sadness whilst I lay here happy?

How is it that nobody will speak to me?

 

The air whistles in and out from my chest

Slowly...

Slower now...

I feel nothing, much to my relief

As I finally hear them say

The reason for their sorrow:

"Sleep sweetly, my love.

Sleep sweetly...for the last time."

And with those soft words in my mind,

I fall asleep.

Reviews

[Ruby Moon]

beautifully haunting, like a gentle mind wondering while it moves beyond the cares of this world... the attachments of this world and yet still wondering and wanting to sooth the ones closest, and yet the furthest, from her

[AK]

So gentle and loving... nicely, and painfully done.