Do They Have Telephones up in Heaven?

By R R Pravin

Do they have telephones up in heaven ? is an anthology of poems penned during my first year in Paediatric residency to commemorate the many stories and lessons learnt from the children and families I was fortunate to work with through a myriad of rotations. There are special moments of joy, heartbreak, love, anger and lessons learnt captured in these pages. Children with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses often lead a life filled with trials and tribulations but this collection proves that there is hope and happiness even in the darkest of times. Most importantly, these children have taught me that life is not in the medicine or in their treatments but rather life is in the humanity around them from the kindness, the care and the concern they receive from everyone around them from family to the medical team to allied health care staff. This anthology also serves as a memory to children we have lost this year. They will always be in our hearts. Life is short, let us live each day as it was our last. Peace and love always, Pravin xx.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524699840

R R Pravin

R R Pravin is an avid author who loves writing about contemporary issues near and dear to his heart. During this COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote a groundbreaking anthology to define these unprecedented times. He also pays homage to his hometown and to the ordinary people for their hard work.

Book preview

Gone too soon

Life’s clock has struck twelve

The precious time I had with you

Is now over all too soon

Why did you have to leave

Before I could say how much

I love you sweetheart

Is there anything I can give

To make you stay a while more

All those times the doctors said

You have a day more to live

I would hear you had a year longer

No parent wants to let go of a child,

A child like you my angel

Do they have telephones up in heaven

Where I can make a long distance call

No matter how much it costs me,

No matter how long it takes to get through,

I’ll wait a lifetime for that moment to come true

Your time with us was far too short dear

When I look up into blue skies

I can only imagine the playground

You’re running around in, looking back

Every once or twice trying to recall

Mummy, Daddy and little brother

Memories who will fade as the years pass

But you will be in the centre of my heart

Till my time comes to be with you love

Your little brother looks at me

Breaking down in the kitchen

Quietly wondering why you left

Without growing up to say goodbye

I can’t even find the words to

Carry on without the sunflower

That I carried everywhere I went

Wearing you on my heart like any

Proud parent only to have lost all

In a day so dark I almost fell so deep

I thought I’d never recover till

Your little brother smiled at me

Pointing at your photo frame

Then I realised that you’d never leave

The home you grew up in,

The hands who fed you,

The roof that raised you,

That you’ll forever be