Stay

Stay with me

             they have

he feels guilty

he wasnt there when his wife died

the emergency team was too involved to mutter Call her husband while she seized for fifty minutes
he was five minutes away

Stay with me

his best friend suffering esophageal cancer had his wife called himas they agreed to come Now he said Come now
he was half the country away but he made it

his brotherinlaw called Come now he said his sister suffered her second bout with ovarian cancerher third cancer
he was half the country away but he made it

he felt guilty because he wasnt with his wife

he felt guilty because he was with his best friend his sister

he wasnt going to ask

                        his mother  his doctor  all those who attended his birth were dead

he preferred to leave as he was born

the guilt might stop with him

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