The once spoke with a woman
with an illness inside of her heart,
I was there to simply ask her a few questions
But I just did not quite know how to start.
How do you ask a person
who can count their time that they have left,
Which moments that they regret in life
and whuch ones that they liked the best.
I did not quite know how to ask her
If she could give me any kind of advice,
When I was given my entire life to live
And she had only gotten a slice.
I was scared that she might judge me
For wasting minutes of her time,
So I asked her just one question
As I heard her old clock chime.
I asked her what it felt like
Knowing that soon that she would die,
And as she told me her short answer
She looked me straight into the eye.
"I might know that my time is ending
But pity for you is all that I have got,
Because since I wake up knowing that I am dying
You wake up pretending that you are not."
Crystal K. Floyd
February 9, 2020
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