Wednesday's Woe - Sitting in the Waiting Room...

Wednesday's Woe

Sitting in the Waiting Room...

Having lost my only daughter, my 19-year-old, to death 5 years and 5 months ago, I am still full of grief even as I escort my oldest child, my son, now 29-years-old, to the doctor for scans after his receiving yesterday's diagnosis of cancer... And this after his daddy, my husband Tommy, was diagnosed with cancer only a few months ago...

Sitting in the waiting room,

Another child is at risk...

Avoiding any sense of doom,

Though icy fear seeks to frisk.

Sitting in the waiting room

While my son's being scanned

For degree of cancer's doom...

While I pray for God's healing hand.

(How did life turn out this way

Despite a mom's best plans?

God works in a mysterious way

Amidst a mom's demands.)

Sitting in the waiting room,

Another child vulnerable...

Praying away any sense of doom,

My heart with grief still full...

Is life one big waiting room

Where we dread the next call of doom?

Thankful God's overcome Death's call,

I fight this mom's need to bawl...

Picture, thanks to Google Image

Poem - Sitting in the Waiting Room - Angie Bennett Prince - 1/10/2012