There was nothing to do
but wait,
inside antiseptic
white walls
listening.
Nurses’ sterile voices,
drawing blood
or trying.
Mother’s groans of pain
with each empty stick.
Her blood ran dry
last week;
She has no more to give.
I wait
in a corner,
glazed gazing
through a window.
Bird in a blue sky
flies free.
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