Finally, after hours and end
Through toil and turmoil and panic and scare
A battle of will with hope and prayer
The body let go, the heart descended
The soul was free, the spirit transcended
The crusade was lost, the patient had died
It was then, that grief magnified
She lay there still, with wondering thought
With watery eyes and sheer distraught
And although she was taught
To destroy emotion, dehumanize
Anesthetize, etherize
Under no circumstances, to empathize
To not believe
In spirits and souls
In the after-life, gods and ghouls
Heaven and hell and that abstract lot
Bottom line, she was taught
To always be
A human bot
But she could not
While trying to stop the oozes from her eyes
Which just would not
Stop streaming, as she let out silent cries
And she had too big a heart
To move on, to let go
Of what used to breathe just a moment ago
And poor she, she hadn’t even time for recuperation
As she had to rush over, for a pending operation
In an attempt to save yet another
From the final fate of that eerie, cold smother
And as she finally gets a chance to rest
From the horrid, evil life-and-death fest
She slowly drifts away in never-never land
But alert, with a stethoscope in her hand
Ready to wake up, and attempt another save
And postpone a being, into its own grave
I look at her silently, not to wake her up
And I see her eyes persistently flickering
As if she’s still insistently hindering
The eventuality of expiration dates
I wonder sometimes, if she has come to know
Her colossal strength, her inner afterglow
And if somebody somehow, came and told me
That she was an angel, I’d agree
Because I believe that angels, come in all shapes and sizes
And it’s not too often that one realizes
The worth of others, and the value they possess
And their strange ability to unknowingly impress
So just as she was fast asleep
That device she had, gave a shrill beep
And as if she was expecting it
She got all set, in a heart-beat
I look at her as
She rushes down the corridor
Off to fight, another war
Her stained white apron, fluttering away
Like a caped superhero, to save the day
A caped superhero, with intention sublime
Saving the world, one life at a time