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        Were You Like Me?



Were you like me?

Were your days bordered by pain?

Were your nights eternally endless?

Did you wonder if this young, brash man could alter it?

Did you wonder if anyone could?

Did you cry when he said, "It's over for you"?

Cry, but not believe that he had the kind of power

to alter such a thorough awfulness?

Were you crucified when they twisted the screws into your head?

Did you feel horror at the drill,

horror at making an opening, an access?

Did you feel it when it left?

Were you shocked to awaken the next morning

while the pain slept on?

Do you know that he believes that God is with him at Loma Linda?

Did you too, hear wings?










by:
Janet Johnston
Bilateral Pallidotomy
Loma Linda University Medical Center