Friday, July 02, 2021

Percussion

This poem was written for a friend's daughter (Chloe), who is a respiratory Physiotherapist, currently working on a Covid 19 ward.  Percussion is a technique to help people to breathe more freely.


Percussion

 

 

The sound of the drum of life

A touch, to encourage, to succour

To get you home with your wife

Living, close, who you were

 

When I go, you don’t see

I leave behind a part of me

Willing the Universe, a plea

That my hopes for you will be

 

You slept so long to get here

Your mind and spirit shined

We lost some, not without a tear

A vow never to leave you behind

 

I hold those dear much tighter

Constant, resolute in this strife

I will be there tomorrow, brighter

Smiling, with the drum of life

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