He's lying in bed paralyzed It's made me all so fragilized White walls, blue box, and twisted head On the silver hospital bed He says no words, just garbled sounds His jowls shake like a basset hound's He points to what he wants On the little paper, nothing to flaunt Images, memories, all they do is haunt What do you think of when you lie In bed, when your only future is to die? While life races by, a baby is born Without a grandfather, will the child be forlorn?
Granpapa by Geneviève Pardoe Macchiarella is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.