July 24, 2014 Writer's Digest Wednesday Poetry Prompts: #272 To Stay or To Go

To Go or To Stay

Should I go now or later

It was if my foot was nailed to the floor

And I would go round and round

I did not know how sick you were

Tests were being given

Results speculated on

Then more tests

And different speculations

Which required more tests

And on and on the week went

In memory the whole thing

Seems like a whirlpool

Or merry-go-round

Near the end of the week

The doctors asked to transfer the patient

To a larger hospital where he would

Be seen by his regular doctor

It was time to go

No more waiting

No more questions

What I didn’t know

Was that my going would be

The last time

Later when there is only sorrow

It is wondered where does it come from.....

Like the Sweet Texas Crude

Which is formed deep beneath the earth

From organic bodies

Sorrow is formed somewhere

Deep in the soul

Or in the DNA of the body

From old sadness’s

Maybe sadness’s from other life times

Ancient sadness’s

And sorrow can bubble up

Come forth like a gusher

Without words only sorrow

Sorrow that can drown

The one who grieves

July 24, 2014