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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/325056-More-than-a-Number
Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #798686
Poetry Collection Dedicated To My Mother's Memory
#325056 added January 28, 2005 at 5:27pm
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More than a Number
More Than a Number

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

Arrogant power
Runs rampant in hospitals
Recapture control

Say no to doctors
Endless rounds of testing this
Leads to testing that

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

What they don't tell you
If the treatment doesn't help
Often it kills you

Just one of many
Paper death certificates
Adorn someone's desk

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

Sterile and lifeless
Months and years given to grief
Instant of kindness

Reach out to hold you
Start to live your life again
Time travels forward

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

The walking wounded
Inevitable next time
Visit the doctor

The look in their eyes
Take a number and you wait
Hoping for kindness

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

Capture the moment
Writing your observations
To share with others

Strength in those numbers
Embrace and hold each other
So you aren't alone

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

Make a difference
Look to comfort your neighbor
Love will give you faith

For, what is power?
No one can control your soul
Unless you consent

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

So, mister doctor
And all health care providers
With no compassion

Remember my words
Your destiny may find you
Alone and hurting

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

Will your doctor care?
Or will you reap what you sow?
I believe I know....

I wish you good health
All the days of your long life
So you don't suffer

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

The pain you have caused
Neglecting my dear father
Who trusted you so

I'll not believe you
And I'll fight for my mother
And always question

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

A pain in your neck
So I'm loudly requiring
Attention and skill

You see my story
Cannot have a happy end
Not just a number

More than a number
Living being with hopes and dreams
Search for compassion

I visit my dad
Near a pine tree on a hill
Thanks to all your care

More than a number
More than just someone's father
They killed my father

Marker 649
On the stone in the graveyard
Not just a number....

..died that day.

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