GOD WON’T
GOD WON’T DO THIS TO ME
Last night I was haunted by my
dead cousin 3 yrs. ago today
I stood at the bed where she lay ravaged by lung cancer
I just stopped smoking yesterday
she said through terror stricken gasps
I looked behind the bed and found the plug un- plugged
There was little oxygen flowing at St. Joe’s that day
I heard her beg for her life
But the doctor was contrite:
There’s tumor everywhere
He tried to let her down gently:
I’ll see if I can free the lung the
one that has not collapsed
But alas she was dead before the
setting sun cast a long shadow
Strange how we hadn’t seen each
other in 30 yrs. And there I was
gazing at her blue feet & grey tears
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Spring 2010
