 indigo
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Über-General
720 points
14/NA/York!, United Kingdom
Join Date: Sep 2007 |
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No
silently passing shadows
cover the moonlit streaks of silver
dashed across the hedge
or noiselessly pad past the
pond
in which
the newts and tadpoles swim.
or the silhouettes of the orb
reflected in the water
speckled, green algae
shields the murky depthsmy next door neighbour is dying of cancer of the spleen. no, i can't take another death. she can't die. she can't. i don't even really know her, but i will be devastated if another person dies...of cancer no less, i can't take it. | |
dlsharp
Minister
10937 points | | That's a very nice poem. I know it's hard and she may yet live. But the facts are that we are all born to die. The older you get the closer you come. Never really thought that much about it until my parents became old. I would hate it if they died and the fact that I feel that way makes me understand my own mortality. |
colonelbleep
Debater
5339 points | Hey indigo  Death is a part of life. The way one dies is what makes it hard or not to take. I.ve had MANY loved ones die. Never pleasant, but I've accepted it as part of living. That's why we have so many theories on what happens next. To ease the pain. |
bendover
Über-Monkey
55449 points | | Use this positive talent to write and create. Don't look on the negative side of the end of your neighbours life. Your work is very good. |
indigo
Über-General
720 points | thankyou for the compliments and support but i can't take it in. my Opa died a year ago and i still expect, when i next visit Oma in gronigen, nederland, that he'll be there in his chair, smoking his pipe. i can't comprehend it, he seemed invincible. i even believed that he'd live when my father travelled to holland to say goodbye, but he didn't, and he died, and i still can't believe it. he had cancer.
and now it's happening again, and i can't bear it. my other neighbour also died of cancer- when is this killer going to stop? |
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