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Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

0 posted 2003-12-09 11:04 AM

Quite an obstacle to carefree adolescence, it is,
to awaken from a three-week coma
and to discover you cannot speak.
The covert doldrums of the inflamed meninges
were first to wind into oblivion.
No exertion of will would spring them back
to their pre-coma agility.
No manner of tongue and lip exercises
would perfect, again, the streetwise
thirteen-year-old's,
"hey, baby-girl, I think you're cute"

Everything had stopped for three weeks.
The boy reached for the alphabet chart,
created for him,
to express a thirst for apple juice.
—It all appears very gloomy, some inner voice
did claim.

**** **** ****

..circa 2003..Copyright 2003 Spiros Zafiris
..poem archived in several other sites

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2003-12-09 11:51 AM

Amazing write...you leave much for the reader to ponder.
Well done!
Hugs~

~ Let peace begin with me...

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

2 posted 2003-12-09 11:55 AM

Oh goodness, this one hurt. I hope all is
better now. Sometimes we forget about the
hurts of the world in our Holiday Season.
Hugs to you,

Ethel

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2003-12-09 01:28 PM

Spiros,
Interesting write, enjoyed.

Bonnie j
Senior Member

since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

4 posted 2003-12-09 02:26 PM

What a shock to awaken with no voice, lost memories even may occur. I have one written of a woman who was in a coma for years then awakens. What a shock to find family members now old and gray and her face filled with wrinkles.
Hope all is well.
Love Bon-Bon

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2003-12-09 08:49 PM

Spiros? Everything all right?
Just a piece, I hope, of something you
once saw, and not now experiencing?

Well done, Sir...

it made me reach out...

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

6 posted 2003-12-09 09:41 PM

..Enchantress..garysgirl..Seymour Tabin..Bonnie j..+..Sunshine../\..

..thank you, all, for reading + commenting; i
appreciate the kind words..

..Sunshine, this poem sprang out of me when
i selected 10 Buzz Words from a C.P. Cavafy
poem, for this Buzz contest i participated in..it deals with my 1963 personal experience
of having lost my voice..well, i can speak now (more or less)..voice did gradually return..thanks..

../\..Spiros

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