The Power of Speech
You sit as always-earphones in and eyes glued to a screen,
soon you will stand and leave, sometimes you say goodbye,
I watch you in your other world to which I do not belong.
I go to the freezer and select our tea, to await your return,
I make your bed and pick-up your laundry,
When it is dark I sit and eat alone.
Tomorrow we will repeat this process I think as you sit-
lost in a world where you fight aliens on a screen,
I go to bed and you do not hear my goodnight.
I lay in a bed and hear machines as they bleep-
you sit beside me and wait-
soon I may leave and you will be alone.
You speak to me as I fade in and out of sleep,
I hear those words-'nana, please don't leave me alone',
I will myself to stay and care for you.
I am home now and you look up from your screen and smile,
soon you will leave for college and you say goodbye,
I go to the freezer and select our tea, I do not feel so alone.
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