"Best Day of the Year" by Thelma Reyna
Best Day of the Year
Write it in your heart that every day
is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
yes emerson yes except that one when his heart crashed and i couldn’t make it throb
again though i was down the hall waiting as his eyes went blank
and though i used to save him from the precipice time and again bedside wife-hawk when
whitecoats erred or nurses flitted from his room too soon
and though my fingers drew a blessing on his forehead kissed his nose tweaked his chin
and he said i’ll see you in an hour
and though they wheeled him like a mummy down the hall we knew so well smiling and
unafraid of tiny nicks they’d slit into his arm
and though you’re always right emerson your brain transcending us i must disagree
emerson for that one day that day that one day I couldn’t save him
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