Hope is the black cast boot
waiting across the bed
for the boy in the bed
whose brain has stopped working.
In boisterous play (for hundreds have prayed)
now kicking up dust while
compressing the leg whose
bones and brain are quite quickly healing.
Hope is the black cast boot
waiting across the bed, pointing to Heaven,
where the boy in the bed whose brain had stopped working
has gone now for everlasting play.
Gary Edward Geraci