if i could see the world through my dying patients' eyes

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inspired by the acutely ill and dying patients i have worked with in hospitals and nursing homes

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If I could see the world through my dying patients’ eyes

By puppeteer

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If I could see the world through my dying patients’ eyes,
Each hour a treasure trove of invisible delight:
The miracle of seeing, of being, and the prize
The mundane form an open hand grabs for in the light.
Those figurines of memories frozen in their beds
Rapture in the daily calls of ordinary life,
Where once they railed against its chains, sawed against its threads,
With therapeutic stabbings of their querulous knife.
Death invites our yearning for the dance or for the dirge,
That from our suffering space we may drink of deeper things,
If we could just permit their dying eyes to emerge
In us who live in waste at the spring of our livings.

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released July 4, 2020
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puppeteer Chicago, Illinois

who is puppeteer? i grew up of American parents in Paris and London. i became a psychologist by career, remaining a music obsessive, writing songs when i could on bits of paper. raising a family prevented creative outlet of that nature. now, as a divorced skeleton, i spend time when i can writing and recording for this collection of songs, entitled Songs of Love and Earth. ... more

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