Watching My Father Die
my father had cancer
the doctors told us
he’d be dead in six months, but
after six years of pampering
and caring for him
we wondered how long this was going
to last. Not that we wanted
him to leave us, of course,
but did the doctor know what he was
talking about? but then
his condition started getting
worse, in the last two weeks especially, and
I just saw him in so much
pain I didn’t know what to
do. After seeing him in so much pain, after
these two weeks, one night I
even prayed for his death to
come. Just to save him. Just to make his
pain go away. And the next
day, he was dead. After all
that time, the pain was over. Just like that.
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