27 September 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2873: the lost ward

@opeyemioguns · 2025-09-27 13:55 · Freewriters

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Between the third and fifth floor

a region that should not exist, lies

where elevators stop too long

and catalogs are deceiving.

Though they know, the nurses never voice

of patients who check in

under diseases medicine cannot identify,

scenarios that run against the graphs.

The woman resides in Room 4.5.

who changes backward every day?

The doctor get to know

through his residence,

With shrieks reverberating

from floors that didn't exist.

Beds loaded with improbable he saw:

two identical twins sharing one heart beat,

a comatose patient's fantasies

leaked color on clean walls.

Though the administrators deny it exists,

The budget, though, has a line item.

tagged particular events

and insurance codes that are not genuine.

Families sometimes get

Relatives' discharge papers

they never learned who patients were.

never knew were ill.

The lost ward heals what is untreatable:

broken souls, frazzled time,

language's hearts beat

Only apparitions get it.

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