Rainbow

A Poem by Megan

He was laying on his deathbed
But he didn’t know it yet.
The nurse came in with another IV,
Said I’m sorry but this is necessary.
He had a fear of needles
But over the past four months he’s
Gotten used to them.
Surrounded by family he said
“Don’t look at me like that.
I know these hospital walls are too white
But I’m not dead,
Yet.”
My daddy cried as he said goodbye to his father,
It was the last time they’d say hello.
He found trouble driving the
Three hours home.
He tucked me into bed that night,
Said I love you like his father never did.
It was the last time his daddy would be
Surrounded by family,
Until the call that came in February.
I remembered the hospital walls
That seemed way too white,
On the day my daddy said his last goodbye.
Aunts and uncles were crying,
I was too young to understand that
My daddy would never see his daddy again.
Surrounded by family,
I cried in the night.
The death of a man I
Didn’t know too well just didn’t feel right.

The black clothes were distressing,

I'd never had to deal with the death

Of someone I'd be missing.

And now it’s many hospital trips later and
I always think how those walls are too bland.
I won’t forget the day when the world seemed too sad.