I'm sitting here fat and sober. Staring at me is a man of skin and bone. I cannot see his face...hidden by overgrown hair and beard...as though he's too afraid to look at the world, to face it's severity and harshness again.
He wants no more of it.
Beside him rests his hope and helping hand...a friend wanting to ease his pain. Quenching his thirst and feeding his hunger. That is all that can be done...it's too late now. But at least for these last few days, this man can see and feel the beauty and love that life has to offer.
I wrote that after sitting opposite a man clearly dying, skin and bone...his hand torn apart...maggots falling out. He was sitting at the entrance to the home of Mother Teresa in Calcutta. An MC Sister was sitting with him, feeding him before he left for one of the hospices. That same man is still alive and healty, although missing two hands. I was sure he would die within hours. All I can think of is that the love of the sisters, and the love of the volunteers in the hospice, helped him to pull through.
It takes so little to change a persons day...a smile, or a gesture of simple love.
You and I must show more often the beauty and love that life has to offer.
He wants no more of it.
Beside him rests his hope and helping hand...a friend wanting to ease his pain. Quenching his thirst and feeding his hunger. That is all that can be done...it's too late now. But at least for these last few days, this man can see and feel the beauty and love that life has to offer.
I wrote that after sitting opposite a man clearly dying, skin and bone...his hand torn apart...maggots falling out. He was sitting at the entrance to the home of Mother Teresa in Calcutta. An MC Sister was sitting with him, feeding him before he left for one of the hospices. That same man is still alive and healty, although missing two hands. I was sure he would die within hours. All I can think of is that the love of the sisters, and the love of the volunteers in the hospice, helped him to pull through.
It takes so little to change a persons day...a smile, or a gesture of simple love.
You and I must show more often the beauty and love that life has to offer.
