Unanswered Questions
Unanswered Questions
I sat there by the bedside
Looking into the hollow eyes.
As you saw me you looked surprised.
A body standing at the door of death.
A body trying to avoid taking the last breath.
You are holding on not wanting to die.
I’m holding back not wanting to cry.
Your chest is rising slowly with the help
of a machine.
The lifeless body would not redeem
her love for this child.
So I sat by the bedside awhile.
Crying inside not for her death
but because so may things will be left,
unanswered, left undone
You see I’m the one.
The black sheep of the seven; why
was there no love for me?
I did so many things so you could walk proudly
My long marriage, my bright and beautiful children,
my education.
None of it put me in your admiration.
Black sheep am I,
Because I wanted more from life’s pie.
The machines broke the silence in my mind
Tears were readily rolling. Now I’m crying.
What will I miss about you?
The look in your eyes because
for me your love was not true.
Will I miss your comments?
That weren’t always kind
Or your declines when I asked you to dine.
I wasn’t one of the favorites.
Nowhere near the greatest
Of your seven.
I wonder what will you tell
God about that when you get to heaven?
Your life slipped away
in the middle of a spring day.
I am left to make my way
with no answers because
there was nothing you would ever say,
Not even in your best day.
Copyright © Chris Raines | Year Posted 2014
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