Insomnia cracks open the nightly vista
Of up and down through hospital corridor,
The mind in wintry chill pokes and douses again
The smouldering memories of
Medical failure and complications,
Only to tend the hope to return from hospital bed
The close one with healthy strides back
To warm and cosy home lying deserted now,
But to be scoffed at with the piercing shriek
At divine decree,
And rattling away of still body on cold stretcher,
Breaking the huddled slumbers on strewn mats
On hospital’s freezing corridor.
—————- Dr. Fathema Begum
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