Life hangs in a vacuum. <br />Hesitant to plan anything <br />Go to town, invite friends to dropp in, <br />We get on with our tedious routine <br />While, full of selfish concerns, <br />We pray it does not happen <br />At too inconvenient a time. <br /> <br />We've been waiting for weeks <br />To hear it's over, his fight <br />Being waged to stay alive <br />Just one more day, one more night. <br />He's not someone we've been close to, <br />Or even very much liked, <br />But he is family, part of the clan. <br /> <br />Why does he have to struggle so? <br />For inevitably he will lose. <br />It's a matter of time the doctors say <br />While sedating him once again. <br />He's very old, the disease won't go. <br />There's nothing we can do for him <br />To mitigate the pain. <br /> <br />But getting on with everyday things <br />Is hard; listening for the phone, <br />Waiting for that fateful ring <br />His death knell; our relief.<br /><br />Margery Rehman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/waiting-149/
