he chose to return home
to the familiar sights, sounds, smells
to leave the silent antiseptic Medicare paid
vacation suite behind, for some other sinking soul
he chose to deny the “in home palliative care”
for he said it would be like a door to door peddler
you allowed in , one who would never leave
hocking her wares as if he got to keep them
when she would give the same calming commodities
to a stranger, the very day he was gone
they all said, he would be in pitiful pain,
peeling his skin off pain without the magic potions
of modernity, the ones that brought on Morpheus' sleep,
and lapped up miles he had left
he knew though, he had no miles left
only a few steps, to the bathroom, perhaps,
if his old soldier’s legs held out, perhaps
he could make it to the yard again one time,
to see the ivy he planted in lesser numbered years,
the cool soft vines he watered and ignored,
until the sun turned them a yawning yellow,
then a brusque brown, perchance he could make it
to their home one more time, before the last speck of green
vanished in the dying light
Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 10:26 PM UTC
he chose to return home
to the familiar sights, sounds, smells
to leave the silent antiseptic Medicare paid
vacation suite behind, for some other sinking soul
he chose to deny the “in home palliative care”
for he said it would be like a door to door peddler
you allowed in , one who would never leave
hocking her wares as if he got to keep them
when she would give the same calming commodities
to a stranger, the very day he was gone
they all said, he would be in pitiful pain,
peeling his skin off pain without the magic potions
of modernity, the ones that brought on Morpheus' sleep,
and lapped up miles he had left
he knew though, he had no miles left
only a few steps, to the bathroom, perhaps,
if his old soldier’s legs held out, perhaps
he could make it to the yard again one time,
to see the ivy he planted in lesser numbered years,
the cool soft vines he watered and ignored,
until the sun turned them a yawning yellow,
then a brusque brown, perchance he could make it
to their home one more time, before the last speck of green
vanished in the dying light
(everything I write lately feels like a retread, but I feel the need to put something on the page--this was inspired by the drought plagued ivy that was growing along my fence)
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