"You have Lupus"
Location
As I waited in bed
I watched the frustration
Then the anticipation
As the the old aging man walked in
With white vanilla hair
And the baby blue attire
With the stethoscope hanging around his neck
Jumping at each step
The tension gnawed at our brains
To know what went wrong
He began to speak
With a sad smile
However the words lost meaning
As my world closed in
I stopped listening
Making sense of those words
There's no meaning
Silence
I looked up
Mothers face full of worry
Wrinkling In anger
But in reality confusion
As he walked away
I heard yelling
Mother's words directed at me
Like stabbing needles
But I just sit there
Each word bouncing off
It wasn't her fault she didn't know how to react
So I take it
Nothing I could have done anyway
For I was stumped
But I continued to ponder
About what the old man said
Running the words around my tongue
Over and over again
As the time went by
The words played like broken record
Mother was now napping
Having been up since dawn
She was exhausted
Then it hit me
Like a brick wall
"You have Lupus"
The minute I made sense of those words...
I wept
Tears poured down
Silently