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The Night Time In Rehab


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It's nearly time for morning dew

As I remain awake, unable to rest

Though my body aches with fatigue

From my very busy day

My mind struggles with everything

As though it sees all things as new

The questions that pour from my damaged brain

Re-building my memory banks

Trying to set order from the chaos

Left behind so kindly by the stroke

That came along to ride with the headache

That robbed me of more humanity

And they ganged up and beat the hell out of me

Leaving me to lie in this hospital bed

Unable to move a muscle

I knew what was happening around me

But lay there watching my limbs turn useless and numb

Into Jelly that was motionless until they came to turn me

And place the pillows around me to help me

Stay in position

No tone, no feeling, no movement at all

This is Stroke number three

And again I'm alive, unable to do anything

watching the world from my bed

Waiting for the therapists to come and work their magic

On my unmoving limbs

Determined to work hard and make my way home

 

written Sept 5, 2004

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