Sunday, March 04, 2012

the patience of a good man

The pain, the discomfort,
        in my own chest and throat
   doesn't come close to matching yours.

Yet you,
        so pale in your light blue paperish gown,
   dull-skinned under the greenish lights,
     frail-looking against the flimsy sheets,
             have complained far less in ten days
   than I did in the past four hours.

God give me grace to grow into the shadow you have cast.

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