Poem 54 Another Stroke
Channel: Bunny Warren
Date: 2023-06-29

This poem, hopefully, explains why I have decided to record my poems to YouTube and not keep them hidden anymore:

Just another stroke – 29.06.2023
Sixty whole years
All spent on this Earth
Yet within just a week
A reminder of death

A left eye not forming
The shapes we expect
The brain trying hard
To help my new specs

Jackie insists… 
A doctor to call
An appointment in hours
A GP’s new drawl

That very same day
A hospital checks
Whether we can be there
The day that comes next

Pembury at ten
No waiting straight in
Consultant and young doctor
So good it’s a sin

Consultant says, ‘we’ll check’
‘Your brain needs a scan’
MRI now waiting 
Straight in… it began

Twenty minutes of sitting
Impressed by the speed
Then Consultant informs us
A stroke yes… Indeed

Well I was then lucky
Consultant says ‘no’
I think I was…
Second stroke was a blow

A menu of drugs
Prescribed to reduce
The chance of more issues
Optimistically… a truce

Can’t fault our great medics
Why do we just hear
Bad news every second
When I want to cheer.

By Bunny Warren

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