Bjorn hosts Meeting the Bar in the Poets Pub today. Our prompt: write from a different perspective than we usually do ~ challenge ourselves with something new ~ I published a version of this poem in April 2010 .. I would categorize it as 'first person with observation of others' ~ going to rewrite, using second person perspective this time around.
you watch as their day
comes to a close
you can't help but feel
tenderness in the moment
you see the endless shuffling
of bodies and souls
some steady on their own
some pushed in wheeled chairs
you follow their familiar journey to a room
they may not remember in the morning
you wonder if he or she will be there tomorrow
the thought lingers longer than you'd like
you realize how deeply you've grown to care
how attached you've become
how much of yourself you leave with them