So Far So Near

So  far and so near after an year

Life and death fought each other

Life remained always darling dear

Haunts of death did often appear.

The Lungs filled with lots of fluids

The Heart gradually got impaired.

 Yes, Blood supply to arteries blocked

What an agony befalls, recalls one who faced.

Those horrendous five to six hours

Lungs struggle to get their share

Oxygen level nosedives, such a rare

evil event happened, do not remember.

Nick of time ambulance at door steps

Zipping through the city's busy streets

With ceaseless siren, red flashing lights

Stopping the traffic at busy moments.

Straight on to a Surgeons’ desk

A heart so strong, now fragile, torn

In the arteries was there a block

Catheter moved and balloon blown

Plaques and the chunks were torn

Stent made the blood flow to start again

In the hospital’s quiet Intensive Care unit

With tubes, IV connectors, gadgets, monitors

Doctors, Nurses checked the vital parameters.

The battle for life, far from over and done.

When BP was low, Oxygen level was low

Strength was low, survival chances were low

Doctors’ confidence level too was low.

Only the spirit to live was high, wow!

In the midst of this heart-wrenching strife,

The Almighty bestowed new spark of life

Death and demon moved away in despair.

Life zoomed with new zeal and renewed vigor.

                                       ……….Narayan Gadagkar