Sunken Awake
June 4, 2006
Ashen sunken
eyes awake slowly
from morphine haze
“it relieves the anxiety to breath”
from time to time
he screams “i can’t breathe”
and i say “you’re breathing now”
he remembers his father, “a financial genius” he says
he is the kindly man with the pipe in the painting
“it hangs above my bed”
each word slow
he was always good to me and he is calling me home
come wuickly he said
i won’t last long
don’t leave yet
you’ll have to wait
he said,
i am just too tired
i am just too tired
i am ready to go
i am scared
head drops
struggles to move
i am ready to go
