Save Me
What is this Evil
Growing inside me?
Who gave it legs and
Permission to feed,
On this - my own life….
Why can’t I cut
This evil out?
Why can’t I bleed
Fountains of youth?
I cry tears,
anguished pain;
Yet nothing…
Nothing
Can save
…me.
(written August 19,2008 as a result of learning of my mother in laws inoperable lung cancer.)
Copyright © Petra Mallett | Year Posted 2008
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