Mother lay your hands over your eyes to blind you from our burdens.
We never asked for anything like this.
Father forget your hidden cries and numb the thoughts inside.
The constant feeling of failure repeats in their mind, each day we wait and we wait as time hunches our spines. We wait as time moves forward and we fall far too behind and hide under the covers.
The hospital beds become your new home and when you’re around it’s like visiting.
There’s only hope in just the strength to cope as doing anything more is overwhelming, just doing anything more is overwhelming.
Standing from the background i watched each piece disappear until everything is empty, after another it all follows until we’re left, after another it all follows until we’re left together, not alone, but hollow.
There’s nothing left, except we’re all still together.