The road leads away and back again
for the tiniest of babies now living
but for the creation of incubators
the path could be a distant memory
for those stricken with lifeless legs
albeit for the miracle of polio vaccine
memories might be a thing of life’s past
due to serious illness or head injury
life possible due to life support equipment
born with loss of limbs or due to accident
immobility the darkness of every dawn
mobile once again with prosthetics
every breath painfully labored and slow
lungs damaged by disease or by choices
the miracle of oxygen lines extending life
the nucleus of human life suddenly stops
a heart unable to support another moment
an artificial valve ignites beating again
for all of these reasons and many more
the list too extensive and long to write
the road leads away and back again
© Renee Espriu
The BeZine 
Profound sentiment about the miracle of science making life better for countless people. Thank you for sharing this with us this month. 🙂
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Thank You for your comment. The older I get I become more aware each day of such things, although I have always known it to be, for when ones close to you are touched by them (as I, myself, was in 2015) you see them all the more.
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