Waiting in the
waiting room
Chemo for dad
It all seems
so natural now,
not strange
and unbelievable.
Many people
were waiting here too,
all going though
the same natural
flow.
But they've
all left,
just me and
a few others
remain.
And a little
boy and his
father come in.
They are waiting
for mother.
The boy is tiny,
The father is huge.
They sit,
wait.
The father takes
up the entire
chair, the
chair takes up
the entire boy.
After a while,
mother comes out.
She is one
huge mother.
Got herself one
huge husband.
And together they
have this tiny
little boy.
He had
better not
learn too
much from them.
Then father shows
mother
a white box.
As soon as
mother sees the box,
a look of disgust
invades her face.
She is expecting
something to be wrong
with the contents
of the box, you can
tell.
The boy however
is very excited.
Slowly, she opens
the box, the disgusted
look still on her face.
But the boy's
eyes get very wide,
he is very excited by
what he sees in the box.
His face is like
the sun.
And the look of
disgust is still
on his mother's face.
And she says,
"It was supposed
to have been
German Chocolate"
And she is quite
pissed off.
And the boy notices
this, and his smile
begins to fade.
And the
father just looks
on, as fathers
often do.
And the boy,
who once saw the
sun, now sees
a little of what
we might call
reality.
Although it's not
the kind of
reality that needs
to be real, at any
time, for any reason.
Hey, don't worry boy,
I'm right there
with you.
I understand what
you're going through.
I go through it
all the time in
my life too.
Remember, one of the great
secrets of existence is:
Don’t let others
take the light out
of your eyes.
The sun is up there
for a reason.
Never forget that.
02/20/02