Coming Back To Life Poem by Diana Kouprina

I felt fear when I breathed in life
I didn't want to be here
Where ever that is, I was.
It was cold,
He was there huddled in a corner
Couldn't look me in the eye
I didn't know him for a minute
But that didn't matter at the time
It was freezing here
It made no sense to where
I was and how I got here
I remember the warmth
The love I felt
Within the portal of the light
My Babushka was there
She told me she never left
I felt her love the same
As when I was a child
She said I had to go
There was much to do
The time was just not right.
I didn't want to leave her
It's been so long since I felt her love
I was freezing when I breathed in life
Waking up in terror
With him sitting there across my bed
Huddled in the corner
Unable to look me in the eye
As doctors slowly told me I had died,
That I was lucky to be back.
I felt fear when I breathed in life,
I didn't want to be here,
But I was told I had much to do,
That the time just wasn't right,
That my Babushka is always here
Never leaving, always by my side.

©️Diana Kouprina