Life Mechanism

Hospitalized

Alone

Separate

In isolation

No visitors

No guests

Family, friends, who?

All too busy, all too far

When they come and you are bedridden

When they come and you are in comatose

When they come and you cannot move

You cannot talk, swallow, or move your eyes

Wanting only love and compassion

Wanting someone to care

Only then will limbo fade

And the chains and bonds break

Escaping at last into florescent lighting

Into more encasement within white walls

And insistent beeping of machinery

Of the constant flow of air through ventilators

Of nutrition and drugs flowing through veins

Broken into by needles and tubes

A living human science project

And near hopeless cause revitalized

Brought home at last

A home you missed for decades past

Finally with those that will look after you

As a newborn child once again

At the ends of the cycle

And attention returns

With people together through each daily second

Until the new beginning arises