Illness

Now gay couples have healing powers?

 

When the doctor handed her to them

Joy overcame them

A new person

Brought to them

Because they loved each other

She was pushed into the world

To two people

Who desperately wanted love

And to love

Why them?

 

“She’s sick.”

 

A sick baby was given to them

Neither understood how

They weren’t raised to hate

She scowled

She cried

She burned at their touch

She can’t honor her mother and father

Because the tablet didn’t say “fathers”

 

“Talk to her,” the doctor said

“Touch her.

“Hold her.

“Kiss her.

“The more you love her

“The sooner her illness will leave.”

 

She wouldn’t stop crying for a week

She wouldn’t stop scowling for two

It would be longer

Before she could heal

From the enduring burns

Before she was ever born to them

 

One day

She discovered her illness

The crying started again

The shame only began

She reached up

Groped

Grabbed

Gasped

One burn began to fade away

 

She still ached

When they touched her

But for a few weeks

They didn’t know if it ached because it burned

Or if she was starving for it

 

Then one day she reached out for them

 

Illness then divorce

 

Then a new step daddy

 

She had to be cured first

Because Daddy shouldn’t have to juggle

Between love and church.

 

 

Reviews

[D[any] Is [provocative]]

I like although I feel like I need more i get whats going on but im more insightful than most so maybe you should expand for those who arent as deep.

[Roy]

Nice take ...

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