Watching and Waiting

Watching as a loved sibling slips away, I bring up happy memories we own. I wonder why I am the one to stay. Resentful of the passing of each day, at times connected only by the phone, watching as a loved sibling slips away. I notice his black hair has turned to gray, as he says he is chilled unto the bone. I wonder why I am the one to stay. To save him there’s no price I wouldn’t pay. His going leaves me that more all alone, watching as a loved sibling slips away. In trying my deep grief not to display I keep my features immobile as stone. I wonder why I am the one to stay. Falling at last upon my knees to pray I ask He hear me from His mighty throne. Watching as a loved sibling slips away, I wonder why I am the one to stay.