Disclaimer*: The articles shared under 'Your Voice' section are sent to us by contributors and we neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of any facts stated below. Parhlo will not be liable for any false, inaccurate, inappropriate or incomplete information presented on the website. Read our disclaimer.
Just opened eyes and wore my heart upon my sleeve
Entering the ward, looking dapper, hair-game on fleek
Couldn’t care less if I’m known to you at all!
For Brutus is an honorable man, we know, after all!
I stand before this bedcase I’m studying for a while
As a Kanye fan, I know, ‘there ain’t no church in the wild!’
Attendants praying so… like I’m a good man self-styled
All I write is a call for tracheostomy in this file!
Not really a morning guy to be asked, how do I do?
What people think I do? What society thinks I do?
What my family thinks I do, friends think and what I do
Is doing things to you that only God would do to you!
Source: YouTube
I’m now handling a hopeless case of Aplastic Anemia
She’s barely sixteen and she’s running out of platelets
I keep transfusing her as she bleeds until she’s bled out
What else is there to do? I’m only a doctor, baring hatred!
She’s previously undergone two, three nasal debridements
With nasal packing done, she’s biting tongue and I’m frightened!
I tell myself, ‘get a grip, you’re not a brainless amoeba!
She is just a regular patient, she is not a Queen of Sheeba!’
Source: safebirthproject.com
On one-time medications, she survives a day or two
Meanwhile, she’s shifted to the Medical ICU
‘They say’, in a song I hum, ‘All good boys go to Heaven’
She smiles with bleeding gums, why? I don’t have a clue!
I try my superpowers living up to expectations
At last, I go for a cardiopulmonary resuscitation
I feel no pulse nor can I pick oxygen saturation
She had no time to go for a bone marrow transplantation!
Noting down death summary of the one I wished to stay
That’s it! My shift is over! I’m calling it a day!
It’s raining and I can’t rhyme more – I’m no Skippa Da Flippa
Scared to be lonely, I have a crush on Dua Lipa!
I simply love the tattoo on her left forearm that says,
‘This means nothing’ – how insightful that is!
She looks like someone who I know has recently expired
I close my eyes to a heavy heart tonight as I’m tired!
Read Also: [POEM] – A Letter To Patriarchy
