Asystole

Is there strength in all these words

That we pour upon the page

Can they open up the gates

Can they set free from the cage?

Is there power in the pen

Two-edged sword within the hand

To tend the wounded heart

And heal the broken man?

Can we offer a transfusion

To those on life support

Matching with our blood types

Or inclusive donor "O"?

Is there such resuscitation

To the heart, asystole

When the blood ceases to flow

What is the remedy?