Day Five

It is COLD!  Temp right now is 18 degrees (with a "feels like" 6 degrees).  It is biting!  Today is Saturday so we went to the clinic where mom got protein via drip, a vaccine shot and a pain shot.  The pain shot was in the rump and hurt more than the pain she was feeling.  It was probably just a distraction shot.  I will get a shot tomorrow in the stomach, like mom did the first day, to stimulate my WBC so my blood can be harvested on Tuesday.  We're back in the hotel room now.  Mom needs to relax and not move too much.  Gonna have to be another movie day as it is much too cold out there.   BRRRRRRR....

It's raining in Seoul

It's Christmas Day and beyond this window pane

High above in this room through misty lights and rain

I watch the grey sky cower over buses, umbrellas and rooftops

onto traffic, pedestrians and barbershops.

It's raining in Seoul and it couldn't be more graceful

with the traffic below, sounds of it drifting through

the glass up here on the fourteenth floor, I watch a surge

of taxi cabs filled with passengers and travelers.

This city knows not what it means to sleep or even wait

to come up high and watch above the fray and see the rain.

With family on my mind and hope in my soul

I watch the rain from high above ... here, in Seoul.