Doctor Grandma

Pain at 5am,

Pain meds block reality,

It lies underneath.

Sounds of family

Voices, laughter, baby’s cries,

Call us back to health.

Hands moving in space,

Picking nothing from the air,

Flinging stars and light.

cfblack, 5/26/2016

Al, in dreams while on meds, is either have nightmares or conversations. For awhile, every time he was asleep, he would lift his arms and be moving them back and forth, his fingers twitching. I once asked him, “What are you doing?” He said, “Flinging stars and light back into the sky.”

Dreaming of running
My husband tries to sleep walk
With foot in a cast.

at home, cfblack, 5-26-2016

It’s the highs and lows

of a roller coaster ride

that will make you sick.

cfblack,5-23-2016

Need a sign of hope
Rain clouds on the horizon
Need to feel the sun.

Choose to be hopeful
Doctors doing all they can
Picture going home.

cfblack, 5-22-2016

Pain meds do their thing,

putting band-aids on the cause

of all this suffering.

cfblack, 5-21, morning

Pain is subsiding,

like ocean waves on the sand,

will it dare return?

cfblack, 5-21-2016, night

The back rash from hell

allergic to his pain meds

what are we to do?

cfblack 5-21-2016, midday