Hospital reflection

A noisy room divided by quiet curtains.

Gentle silence permeated by occasional words that interrupt turning pages.

Retreat into shared but unexplored history from the violent invasion of the unexpected present.

A large mass resting on wide support generously offered in love but unable to change the flow towards finality.

How it looms, that finality, rising like a blow from Ahab’s bane.

Then, drawn down to deathly depths.

Yet Life, eternal, comes forth…