EVERYWHERE
I was 16 when she died
A slip on blackened ice
Strangely hard, obscured
Is how it began
A broken hip bone
X-rays with a suspicious blur
A diagnosis
No one saw coming
Everywhere, the doctor said
It was everywhere
She will be dead, he said, in six months
Because it was everywhere
Except everywhere didn't understand who she was
It took three years and six months and 14 days and 4 hours and 17 minutes
To kill her
A month before my high school graduation
When I was 16
And every time I think of her
Now 40 years later
I am 16 again
And alone
And crying
Like never before, never after
The only boy I know
Without a mother.
- Mike Geffner
Beautiful poem. I especially like the moving line "But everywhere didn't understand who she was."
ReplyDeletei like your poem. i love how it is written..somehow, you are giving the reader a time to comprehend. though it is a short poem yet very inspiring and pitiful. you have the potential of being a song writer/composer and more on that, become part of performing arts industry..
ReplyDeletePowerful piece brother, I can feel the 16 year old teen grieving. I'm sure she's proud of you and what you have become.
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