Saturday, July 17, 2010

BECOMING AN ORPHAN

The phone rang announcing she might not make it through the night.
The phone rang announcing she died at 10:46 a.m.
We didn’t get to say good-bye.

The doctor told us he might not make it through the night.
The nurse came announcing he died at 3:24 a.m.
We didn’t get to say good-bye.

It seems becoming an orphan at age 54
is much the same as at age 14.

K K McClelland
October 9, 2002

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