Poem - For A Sick Friend
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Poem – For a Sick Friend
Poem – For a Sick Friend
I heard that you
are so very sick
and that just
made me sick too.
Sick with worry
about you.
But God says
do not worry.
I just pray
that you
get well soon,
in a hurry.
When I heard
that you were
critically sick,
I was developing
so many
feelings inside.
Worrying about
you was making
my heart jump!
Oh God,
I prayed
please heal her quick.
Let her overcome
this crisis.
Let her continue to thrive.
She is so young.
She deserves to be alive.
As I wrote the poem about my very sick friend,
I started to consider
my healthy friends
and wanted to remind them
and also remind myself
of the following:
Muster up the energy.
Embrace your life
with vigor.
You still have
your own life
to consider.
No one has
pulled a trigger
on you.
People are losing
their lives everyday
to illness, violence,
or natural disaster.
It almost all makes
you feel like you
have to move
even faster
to get things
done in life.
Tomorrow is
not promised.
You just don’t
know.
Fires, floods, gun violence,
accidents, illnesses,
all of these and more
can end lives.
For every day
that we live
to see,
let us have gratitude
that we survived.
© 2018 Nyesha Pagnou MPH
