I wasn’t there to help you pay the bills,
To help you shop
for food or help you dress.
I wasn’t there to see you take the pills
And all the
treatments that made you a mess.
And when you finally said: “No, that’s enough,”
And stopped the
drugs, and let the cancer do
What cancer does to all, from weak to tough,
I wasn’t there to
whisper: “Good for you.”
But everybody else was.
That’s a gift,
To have your kids
and their kids in the room
You slept in every night, to make the lift
Of soul from body
rise to light from gloom:
A breathless
moment that I’ll never share
Because. Because I wasn’t. Wasn’t there.
Copyright 2014 Matthew J Wells
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