Waiting to Die

When I posted this poem I felt I had to add a little footnote, as it were, it sounds so morbid and it is.  I felt it necessary to explain where the idea came about.  It was over seven years ago when I attended a creative writing course. Where one of the students who works in an residential home quoted something a resident said to her.  she said 'I never knew it would take so long to die'


posted fb11/06/13

#130 Didn’t Know it Would Take So Long

She said she was waiting

Didint’ know it would take so long

Said she has seen so much

Said she was tired

Doesn’t know where it went wrong

All she knew was she was waiting

Didn’t want to see anymore

Said she was waiting

Waiting her turn

As if it was a fairground ride

She said she has waiting

She has had the ups and downs

Remembers happier times

Time with family

Time with friends

Time with loved ones

Time well spent

Time gone

Not to be repeated again.

She said she was waiting

Been waiting all her life

Don't know why it was taking so long

As she said she was ready to die