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The Passenger

An ode dedicated to a woman I know, love, and cherish in life; a woman who speaks with death daily; a woman whom I will encourage and ever remain her faithful friend....until the end.

Elizabeth Marshall

Jan 23, 2017

Old Dominion University

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Against her will

Handed

Where's your hand?

A free ticket

Stamped with compromise

and consequence

Why me?

Let me die

She cries

Endures

Wheelchair

Bound

Brace and

Patches on

And

Gait belt

As her

Seatbelt

She

Lives with it

And can't take it

Off

Foot glued

To the pedal

Did I not

Put you on a pedestal?

She cries

Stuck to the metal

At least

She's given a

New cushion but

No release

No relief

Bad after bad

She doesn't have

Good days

Anymore

Can't recall the good days

She had before

Her ally is a

Chamber maid

Chamber pot

Chamber with

Chains mangled in

Knots

Hemp oil

And pills for the pain

Just call it weed and

Let me get high

She cries

Death won't take me

Let me forget

I am forgotten

By modern medicine

And doctors

I feel 40

Where's my teddy

Oh let me

Revert

To a blissful baby

Let me not know

This brutal tunnel

No feelings

I aspire

To be

Naught

She cries

One last time

Let this passenger

Get off

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