Two more weeks. Two whole weeks before the possibility even comes up again.
But it's just two weeks, I hear someone say, a smug tone in their voice. Bringing up the question: You've gone for so long, what's two weeks going to make a difference?
But it's two weeks. Fourteen more days for the possibility of a break down, more catastrophic than the last two.
I can hear you saying I'm being melodramatic. Fuck you is my response.
Melodramatic or not, it's not stopping.
Here, in the wake of everything that's going on at home, all I can possibly think about is the fact that I'm not with her. I feel like I'm being very... self centered and very selfish. But here, as my mother could very possibly be dying, I cannot forget the fact that these past months have been absolute hell. Me, so easy to forgive so many people who have hurt me in so many ways so many times, cannot forgive my mother, my maker, protector, and who taught me almost everything I'd need to know about that I haven't acquired on my own. Sure, it may not be much, but it's still those basic staples that I would be lost without.
So here I'm sitting, waiting for something to punish me because there's the pronounced feeling of dread that comes right before something goes terribly wrong in response to me being the way I am. I'm sitting here, unable to punish myself for this, because all the way down to the very last fiber of my being, I know that I am not at fault, and she is. And her contracting a deadly disease cannot let her off of my life time sentence that was decided upon months ago. I believe, no matter how wrong I may be, that even death could not end a sentence like this.
You're sitting there, absolutely disgusted by these words. Appalled that I could be so heartless. But honestly, take a look around. I'm not heartless, I'm so far from it. I'm a dog that's grown from a puppy, who's known nothing but beating (in a metaphorical way) his entire life, but has now come to realize that he wasn't the one that was wrong all these years. What kind of hate could spawn from that? The genuine hate that can only be felt between a parent and offspring, coming from either party.
Send me to trial, hang me up to dry for these words pouring from my fingertips. Just know that here, in front of you, I speak the truth, and nothing but.