Jackie's Cove

  Hello! I am glad you could make it to my little corner of the web to check out my writing. Everything you see written here will have been written by me unless otherwise marked. I am happy to say that i have been been accepted to have a poem of mine in a contest. That poem is this one:
Cancer

He's been gone for almost a year now
The bedroom that had been filled with his laughter is
Now gone
   I remember how you would lay in bed
   Your eyes squinting with misery
   The corner of your eyes had creases
   Making you look like an old man
   Your body would shake in little tremors
He's been gone for almost a year now
His love for life would never show what was happening
To him
   I remember how you would never wince when
   You took those long steps up to the Ronald
   McDonald house
   Knowing what pain was to come
   The kemo and radiation therapy
   The long needles that silently stabbed you
He's been gone for almost a year now
His clown-like personality will never make me laugh
Anymore
I hoped that I would see you one last time
But our lives were so far apart
And now he's gone and I'll never be able to say goodbye
   I remember the day you died
   So young yet so old
   You only said a few words to your parents
   And then curled up into a ball and fell asleep for
   Centuries to come,

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