Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Waiting Haiku

Long bedside vigil. 
Monitor beeps, machine breathes. 
Is he even there?










(c)Ellen Gillette, 2012

Twelve years ago, we still hoped for a miracle, a healing or resurrection, whatever was needed to restore Adam to us. For a long time after, I had a hard time going to the hospital for any reason, hearing those sounds. It would all come back, like a flood.

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