Picture courtesy: Crosswalk.com
Hair just colored, smiling yet unaware,
of what the future had, for her in store
Headache, followed by a seizure
woke up then to the voice of a doctor
Deficits sensory and motor
Diagnosed with a stroke, given a clot buster
Still mute, paralyzed,
Too late the surgeon exclaimed
The patient was now brain-dead
Kids at the bedside informed
In an instant the earth drenched
with those tears yet uncried
witnessed I, a family expire
Irony of her death as if lasting forever,
and the kids unlived yet lives as if over..
As yearned they, for the touch of their mother
-Pallavi Aneja MD
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