Pain Poem by Bindu Borle

Each night when she tries to sleep
Her heart cries out for her family
She is helpless, lost among the strangers
Alone in this big white world
No roses to smell and begin her day
Only weird smell and nausea
Where are my children?
Did they leave me here forever?
When they were young I protected them all along
She talks incessantly to the walls around.
Today she alone on this bed in the ICU
She wants no medicine but her children
The mental pain is far greater than the physical one
She calls but no one can hears her muffled voice
In a room full of various noises.
Of the doctors, nurses and attendants around.
For them it is nothing but a routine job
Her tears are nothing but an eye infection
Each day, she tells her kids
The pain of separation is so much more
I cannot bear this pain of not having anyone with me.
The loneliness is far more fatal
Take me home, I can die peacefully with all of you around me…