Okay, really I can't think of a good name for it. Any suggestions?
This one was a bit more recent. 6th grade. Which is really surprising. I didn't write a whole lot of poetry that year.
Anyway, give me some ideas on the name. Enjoy!
I closed my eyes, deciding what to say
and to myself I started to pray
"please oh God, show me how,
to wrench free of the terror which grips me now"
Tears ran freely down my face
I was alone in a dark, cold place
Behind the curtain, I heard a whimpering cry
a girl like me, stuck to the ground yet longing to fly
darkness fell with a heavy gloom
I thought about this girl across the room
I couldn't get this girl out of my mind
Was she scared? Was she angry? Was she rude or was she kind?
Her soft cries kept me from sleep
for I knew this hospital left scars that were deep
Bitter curiosity gripped me, what had her doctor said?
was it, 'Child spend your last days in bed?'
Was death the image that came to her too?
Did she have a deadly disease, or a case of the flu?
Was she scared, or was she in pain?
Were the medics attempts all done in vain?
My wounded heart broke from the core
I got up and thrust back the curtain door
The doll-like child looked to me with a scared blue eye
"Those nurses outside say I'm going to die"
She turned to me shaking from her head to her feet
I felt my damaged heart skip a beat
Down her cheek rolled a glistening tear
"I know," I murmured "I feel your fear"
I sat beside her and stroked her long blonde hair
her eyes crystal blue, her skin bright and fair
"I'm sorry if I woke you. Who are you?"
I could see in her distress this was more than the flu
She leaned into me, and I wished I'd come sooner
She whimpered in my arms, "I've got a tumor."
Was this my purpose? Why I was alive?
To comfort a girl who could possibly die?
I looked at her face; we were very much the same
Both carrying a problem human kind could not tame
She mourned and sobbed into my chest
The very sight made me long for eternal rest
"Miracles happen!" I desperately cried
I worked to calm myself but tears came no matter how I tried
I spent the night with a sister and friend
someone whose hand I would hold till the end
the day ahead brought us both surgery
where we would come back to life, or be eternally free
I feared for myself and what I await
and I prayed for the outcome of my dearest friend's fate.