Mom cried,
but I wasn't scared when I heard
he was in the hospital with a blown-up blue
leg.
The rest of the family acted nonchalant and even
went out to eat all while he was still
in his hospital nightgown
And I was too embarrassed to hug him
even though there was a chance
he could die.
YOU ARE READING
Poems from July
PoetryI wrote a poem every day in July of 2017!! Not all of them are published here but this was the idea behind my writing 12 books in 2018!
