Answer and Explanation:
"ICU" by Grace Chua is a poem that deals with the loss of a loved one and the understanding we have of death. The last stanza is the following:
But I can't see
for the life of me
the far-off
places
to which
you
stray
When the speaker says that she "can't see" those places, she means she cannot understand death nor what happens after it. She can surely understand pain. As she watches her loved one lying in a hospital bed, she can sense death is only a matter of time. She knows that person will soon be gone, and that she will hurt because of it. But where will that person go? What happens then? That is something she cannot see.
