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Waiting

October 10, 2013
By DalekStorm BRONZE, Hudson, Massachusetts
DalekStorm BRONZE, Hudson, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." (Mark Twain)


Waiting is the hardest part.
Sitting in the sterilized room.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Looking at the disinfected white walls.
Smelling the Purell on skin smell.
Waiting is hard.
What are they doing?
No one will tell me what happened.
Waiting is killing me.
The doctor walks out of the white walls through a white door,
comes and says something to mother.
Mother looks over and sighs.
Comes over, says 'We're going home.'
Get home. Someone is missing.
She'll never see me grow up.
Never know the things I see.
Never coming home.
Waiting.
The hardest part of waiting is waiting for something that will never happen.


The author's comments:
This piece was inspired by the memory of my mother's wife dying after several strokes. I remember going home after the first hospital visit, the very first time I went to the hospital, coming home, and somehow knowing without knowing that she would never come home again.

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