Embrace This Circumstance

Perhaps it is courage
or some semblance of it
where wires that fray
from this fray to that
bonds all troubles
with dashes of

beep. (finality.) beep.

something else; a reminder
that frailty is not the result
but the conditions from whence
this broken ballad began
its resounding trill in faint pulses.

beep.

A pulsation that resounds
beyond the rooms we’ve found
ourselves imprisoned.

Nothing has changed
while nothing
is as it once was.

– flatline –

20 lines. Prompt: picture of 2 patients reaching out to one another in a hospital room.