Poem: Please Tell Me

The world is coming to an end

Everything is falling apart

I know they love me

but there is something

they are holding back

She knows something and won’t tell me

I ask her to tell me the information

but she tells me I have another appointment

I know she doesn’t want to hurt me

but she’s hurting me more

by holding it back

I talked to her

and she apologized

She told me she wanted

the doctor to tell me,

but that would be a month and a half

after the test I said.

It was bothering me

not knowing.

It was hurting

because it was my life

and she wouldn’t tell me.

Originally written 16 May 2002