--- title: Thank You date: 2008-07-03T05:28:30Z modified: 2008-07-03T05:28:30Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/thank-you/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 224 categories: - Life Poems - Love Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-07-03T05:28:30Z tags: - Life Poems - Love Poems --- in the corridor outside the still hospital room pacing up and down a thousand times the mind thinks of a billion and one things sane and insane it was a normal [day](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md) just like any other day coming home from a routine work i find you sitting all alone in the [footsteps](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/footsteps-of-angels.md) in between tears you say you had enough you say you want out you want to [go away](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dont-go-away.md) a normal day just shattered in one moment shocked and speechless i walk past you into the flat gathering myself i walk into the kitchen gulp down a bottle of water slowly walk out towards you I stand there for a minute staring straight at you the kitchen knife in one hand the other hand firmly holding you i stand there staring at the ground In one single moment our whole life can turn around now standing outside in the hospital corridor i snap back to reality the sound of a baby wailing brings me back from the distant [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md) that once plagued me with tears in my eyes i slowly turn around walk away as fast as i can away from the hospital away from you away you the kid away from your new found life the memory of us now reside in the hands of your husband a simple handwritten note hastily scribbled “thank you for the best day of my life” -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- no notes…. simple poem. single [meaning…](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/life-still-has-a-meaning.md).