I Survived

I survived the crazy hospital scene, The time spent sobbing on nurses shoulders; Feeling sorry for them, always having the distraught Family members using them as surrogate handkerchiefs. And I came back into my own life again, Which I know you would have approved of; And I tried to sweep up all the little scattered crumbs, From that sunken city, And re-form it into something, maybe A semblance of what was now missing? I kept trying so hard, to pile up The tiny fragments just right; but I had to give it up finally- Crumbs just won’t stack. Then I realized that I have been inside the Steel reinforced safehouse you built around me With your love, for so many years of my life, and That it will never tumble down. And here I have been living in the Taj Mahal all this time, Rich in everything that matters; But only noticing the little piles of crumbs Here and there, in the doorways. Forgive me for that. I guess I just forgot to keep looking up.