I Promise It's Real

I Promise It's Real

Samantha Savello

The dripping hospital,

Oozing with Blood,

Teeming with the germs of the ill,

Echoing the moans of the sufferers,

Mashing together a nasty mixture of pain and bile

Until it hurts too much to hear

And the doctor draws the curtain, sets out his tools,

And slices away at the last bit of hopelessness,

Puts it in a bag, and wipes down the area with antiseptic.

He is no longer sick

But now empty:

A phantom of his former self

He leaves the white-­walled warzone

And walks to his car

His head full of scrambled eggs,

His leg bloody and bruised

His chest beating so fast

That his body cannot keep up

Samantha Savello is a writer from New York. Savello graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in Hispanic Literature, and identifies as Puerto Rican­American.

Photo by Alvin Leopold on Unsplash.