Death Surgery Poems

Devotion

If I was a lung
I'd need you as breath
If you are the air
You keep me from death

My blood needs your heart
To circulate freely
And also your...

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I died on surgeons table
Before surgeons knife sliced my chest 
Before anesthesia put me to rest 
I died in imagination as hopes die in fable...

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Devotion Poem Seven, The Unknowing

(Written for Jim Eslinger, as I face complex surgery)


The difficult coming days shall combine
Into a memory of run hours.
And the hours...

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ONTOLOGY

Water drips from the hairs on my arms, hands 
held high to avoid contamination. I can’t wait 
to begin. I guess this Adrenalin rush is...

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final curtain
by Michael R. Burch

what would u give
to simply not exist—
for a painless exit? 
he asked himself, uncertain.

then from behind
the hospital room curtain
a patient screamed—
"my...

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She was angry with the daughter!
Lost her temper with the father!
Nearly to death, kicked the cat!
Called her only son “a little prat”!

Family was surprised by...

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Appointment to have organ removed by robot-assisted surgeon.
Air-conditioned, no mosquitoes in the OR. When you arrive
You'll remove all your clothes. Naked before the ladies, nurses
Who...

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Brain Surgery of 05'

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D-Day of surgery

R-Rushes of doubt

E-Eternal security assured

A-Attitude is right

D-Death far off in future!...

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Lost, following darkness at an exaggerated speed.
 Feeling helpless with an ever growing need.

Trying to catch your breath with a tremendous scare.
 Its there, all...

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