Recovery
A mini chocolate bear (teddy like) delivered to your
hospital bedside
My gift of recovery in sugar enticement
I lie, "It's skim milk thin."
The sheen on your smile tells me truth is an empty room
You break apart the bear's ear
to feed me joy
Taste of hypnotic buzz like a Van Gogh sky
I touch your stitches
stitching survival
to smooth out creases
My love,
yearning for a cleansing spring
Puncture wounds of care
Unavoidable reality
Healing hope,
the perk of sun
You take the red ribbon from the bear's neck and slip it
onto your finger
Spirited charm
to re-clasp love
Heartfelt ties sharper than skin therapy
Seizing chances that change shape as we
reach for them
For sometimes life strays to alien
Must everything fade to prognosis?
What endures?
Your generous embrace of resistance
that doesn't melt like chocolate
A tranquil loyalty, easily knotted,
like your hospital gown
devotion that clocks the time between us
the past, a brash transparency, plots something new
Our world, no longer wrapped like candy
as we shake it well
to spin us out of grim
Poem revised October 7, 2022
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