Cancer

     As you walk by the house with pale yellow siding, you know that a young girl lies dying. She may be breathing her final gasping, choking breath; but there’s nothing you can do to help, so keep walking, keep your hopes up that something might happen so you can tell yourself what you’re doing is because you’re a selfless individual. But everyone knows that you do it so you can find sleep at night, to hide from the terrible things you’ve done. The atrocities you’ve committed that follow you so tenaciously that you can’t even find peace inside your own mind. May you sleep forever.