Today I looked in the eyes of a woman I did not know
Laying quietly across from one another in a hospital corridor
Twice my age, quietly breathing the end of her story
I looked in her eyes and they seemed to mirror my own
I saw fear, sadness and loneliness in my reflection
Hers, the same deep brown as mine and tilted in similar bend
Yet, they were somewhere else
A place I didn’t know, a place that made me uncomfortable
As we laid quietly in our separate but shared space, I thought is this what it is all about?
Do we eventually end up in a corridor alone?
No comfort of love, no familiarity of a life known or lived?
No hand holding ours, no last I love you?
Does our story end with a stranger in a hall, the only comfort our own?
I couldn’t help but feel my life had been deeply scratched for a reason unknown
Something of this was meant to echo
Was it meant to reverberate a space?
Is it meant for me to open or close?
I really don’t know
I hope she could feel that I saw her life beside me and I felt her soul
I have to believe in the end
It is about something more
Than being alone in a corridor
~Alisa Hutton
Phenomenal piece of art
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Thank you, that is very kind of you xo.
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My pleasure
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A, this is so powerful. Love it.
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Thank you ❤
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Very powerful and sad.
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Thank you, Keith.
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Oh wow. So powerful. A sobering piece, Alisa. 💙
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Thank you, Meg xo.
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Profound, and questions we all ponder at some time…beautifully expressed.
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Thank you, it is a curious thing. Life and our relationship to this world.
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Indeed. What is wonderful about poetry and writing is that our words will live on.
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Very true. It is nice to think that long after we are gone written words may leave a ripple of who were were, what mattered to us.
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And who knows. Maybe we’ll all be friends still on WP sharing poetry and stories from nursing homes. 😉
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I am in! 🙂
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😉 we could knit together over Skype.
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Ha! I look forward to it lol.
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Unsettling in the most beautiful way. Well done, Alisa. ❤
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Thank you, Eric ❤
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A beautiful write and that you could make these correlations and connections makes it all the more so.
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Much thanks, Renee. Appreciate you kindness and hope you are doing well.
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