To See Again

As months and years go by, my friend,
Your eyes have dimmed for you.
You used to read, attention lend
To skills he learned in school.

The cataracts have shut that down,
The books have slipped away;
You fall a lot as you can't see,
At night more than the day.

And so a chance has come perhaps
To fix those cataracts;
Not so your reading will improve –
At suit's when they react.

If you sit there and watch paint dry
Or patterns on the wall,
No mind to them, they have their lives
Until you have a fall.

Then whammo! They jump to the pump
There's tests and specialists;
Not someday way ahead by months
But up front on the lists.

Well, hey all that's what's called ‘acute’
In this society –
Once critical the patient gets,
It's ‘now’, not ‘hmmmm, let's see’.

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