In the ICU
Hear my heart beat at one hundred beats per minute Hear the groaning soldier with a severed leg Hear the screaming diabetic child
Numb from prednisone and failing kidneys
One moment of clarity "Sleep is like death."
Afraid to close my eyes Afraid to sleep
From A Flicker of Hope: Poems Written by a Wegener's Granulomatosis Survivor in 2011
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