Personal Hell

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After the door closed

the footsteps died away

a tear rolled down my cheek.

That's it...

She just left me here.

I had never been in a place so clean and white.

There was no color

it made me want to vomit.

I ran to the window, yelling her name.

"Mom! Mom come back!"

As I watched her drive away

I felt my heart crumble into dust.

Turning, I found a nurse standing in the doorway.

"Time for your EKG..."

She lead me to a back room.

She stuck wires to my chest, and turned on the machine.

The sound was deafening...

I closed my eyes

trying to imagine I was home.

When I opened them, the wires were gone

the machine was off.

I was lead back to my room

the room that I never left.

Unless I had visitors.

All I did was sit in a chair

look out the window

searching for my mom's car.

Kobacker was my own personal Hell.

I couldn't eat

I couldn't sleep.

I just wanted to go home.

For 5 days I was stuck in that pit of despair.

I had visitors, but the one person I really wanted to see,

never came.

My dad...

I just wanted him to tell me, "Everything will be ok."

But he didn't.

My Pastor from church

my former Youth Minister

they visited me.

Even though I was constantly being visited

surrounded by nurses

I had never felt so alone.

It was finally time for me to go home

the doctor told my mom that I didn't want to get better...

That's not true...

None of my triggers were in that hole...

They are all in the outside world.

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