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Charles Barnett
Poems
Oct 2012
Hospital beds
I'm clinging to hope
like I'm clinging
to hospital bed sheets.
Scared. frustrated. Tired.
Counting the naps,
beautiful demonstrations
of death.
Counting the kisses
pouring off your lips
like ballots on election day.
Written by
Charles Barnett
Ironton, Ohio
(Ironton, Ohio)
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