The Horizon, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1996
(Official literary folio of Trinity College of Quezon City)
(Anesthesia knocks me out.
It makes every system in my body
be at a standstill;
leaving only my beating heart
to witness it all.
Anethesia makes me numb
to all things about me.
It shuts off all my senses:
it makes food tasteless;
the air seem unmoving;
it quiets all kinds of sounds;
and makes light grow very, very dim.
Anesthesia makes me forget.
it makes all traces
of knowledge and reason;
of remembrances
kept safe and dear.
Anesthedia makes my tongue stiff.
it makes me dumb to words.
And upon waking,
all I could utter
were incomprehensible babbles.)
I hate surgeries.
and I hate goodbyes.
They knock me out;
they make me numb;
they make me forget;
they make me dumb.
But the worst of it all,
they give me so much pain.