"Rehab Patient #8"

"Rehab Patient #8"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. MD

I

I woke up in this bed

Screws bolted in my head

Along with the others who are moaning

Along with the others who are suffering

II

Oh how I wish to walk

To Jump and Swim and Run

Oh how I wish these things 

to simply be rolling under the sun

III

But I cannot feel them

They are a memory for me

I was born with 2 of them

Now these legs are as useless as can be

IV

As helpless as I am

I try to move and it results in nothing

I am simply a dying soul

Nothing more in this mortal trapping