What My Blanket Has Witnessed

it was in August of that year,
how can i forget when i bore witness
to how i struggled to breathe, to sit
to eat – for once, i knew what it felt
like not wanting to die.
death is a painful process, i mean
birth is a painful process
to become something you are not
you have to go through things
you have never imagined
that was my seventh heartbreak
i was under my blanket diagnosed
with pneumonia.

Victor Oyedele