Bypass by Susuan Kelly-Dewit

In this poem, I felt as though I was listening to a newlywed going through a surgury which happened only a few weeks after there marrige. This poem described the procedure of the man while the wife waited for the results. Waiting in the lobby, the woman was nervous. Throughout the poem, the wife was praying to God for a very successive surgury on the love of her life, especially to the fact that they just have got married.

In this poem, distinctive images are given. They are there to represent what the wife had to go through as she saw her husband getting torn apart. "Craked open your chest, sawing through your ribs, stopped your heart beating, your torso swabbed a hideous antiseptic yellow around a raw black ladder of stiches, you did the death rattle." These images might be disturbing, but yet they really do have important meaning. Imagine seeing your love one in this position. This really happens everyday. At the end, we notice the husband passed away.

"I had not yet kissed into memory those places they raided to save your life." This quote from the poem has significant meaning. The wife did not get to live a long enough life to where she could spend time with her husaband. They had only been married for five weeks and come to find out that he had to have surgury, which he died. The wife did not get to do things that they probably planned for them to do in the future. The wife did not get to enjoy the many memories that were going to come in the future. This just go to show you that you should not take life or time for granted because the next second you might be in a life changing situation. The wife I am sure was not expecting for this to happen to there relationship within such a short time. Many people take life for granted but you never know when it is going to end, so we should all enjoy what we have.