Hospital Angels (Nursing Ryhme)

Dear angel dying here in a bed of white

I stare upon your curled and bloody toenails in midday light

A dangling man outside the window is doing noisy repairs
I'm writing in your chart, recording bodily affairs

You are wasted, leaving soon and I'm but a student nurse

Assessing your cocoon

Nothing about your body tells me of your life

Were you once loved?

Were you somebody's wife?

Where are your children?

Why aren't they here helping with your strife?

Doctor comes in,

stands over your head,

Talks to you like a scolding mother

"Why didn't you take care of yourself, 

You're a wreck like no other!"

Man in the next room won't take his medicine

We put it in ice cream and try once again

He spits a mouthful of pink into my teacher's hair

Being a Nursing teacher is truly unfair

Perhaps this is why the teacher takes to pranks

Makes a student assess a patient who's already crossed the gate

She watches to laugh as the girl learns with horror

this body is dead

Now in rigor-mortir

Lovely cancer stricken mother

surrounded by husband and daughter

I help you as much as I can

I am your latest fan

You are here for the last time

With true love to help you decline

I wish I was funny and could make you laugh

I have no words

I'm cut in half 

My twins are three and in childcare

I stumble in these white shoes

Believing death is truly unfair

I want to run from the hospital

I can't do this work

God give me something palpable

Beautiful

Imaginable

Give me art, music and dance

Give me life outside happenstance 

Give me a lush green field in May

A forest of pines with flitered rays

Let me live

Let me sing

I'll do anything

Let me live

Let me love

I can't leave this earth without heaven above

Let me live

Let me stay

I won't leave this earth without ecstasy

Part of a Creative Writing Project: Letters to Geographer 2015-2016