All I felt was the raw, murderous pain
Dripping
Like the IVs surrounding me
Into my body
My protests burned deep inside me
Wanting, begging, demanding
To be heard
My soul yearned for the time when everything,
Everything
Was better
Laughter

Gone


Tears



Present
I felt every emotion
And I just wanted to scream!
This isn’t fair
She did nothing wrong
God, don’t take her -

Please

There I stood
With my sanity on


edge
Her sanity heartbreakingly lacking
Yet
She still thought of me, of us
Of an innocent child searching for something
So commonly overlooked
Of a healthy her
A halfhearted hunt
For a feather
Now I’m grown
So is she
Her journey is almost over
And I’m breaking because of it