A Sepsis Death

A SEPSIS DEATH     

The screaming and the crying

The writhing round in pain

The praying for a reprieve

Before the hurting starts again

The tilted beds, injected drugs

The nurses taking care

Concern on doctors faces

And the complete, utter despair

Of watching someone that you love

Slowly, in agony depart

This world and your family

Of which they were a part

Then comes hallucinations

And the begging for a stop

The hyperventilation

As their brow you mop

And then the welcome faces

Of loved ones ready passed

Come to usher them now home

Where they’ll be safe at last

And in those final moments

You hold on tighter still

And you feel such huge emotions

More than you want to feel

Then finally it happens

As their last breath they take

And there’s so much more to tell them

But now it is too late

And so you look on lovingly

And you say your last good-bye

And you want the world stop turning

But it doesn’t though you try

Then there is that moment

When their essence finally ascends

And all the things you knew before

Are brought to an abrupt —  end.