Old Wooden Kitchen Table

 

Through the years there

Had been many conversations

Around the old wooden kitchen table,

Family, friends, feelings, finance, futures,

Laughter, tears, sorrow, and all the board games,

This one was different, quiet – almost hushed - the type

Of one way conversation that instantly leaves you numb, hanging

In an empty place that you have never been before, mentally trading all

There is for tickets back to the days before you sat down for this conversation,

It’s strange how a doctor’s request for more medical tests for the one you’ve loved

Forever is like running face first into an invisible solid rock wall, perhaps it was the one in

One hundred phrase that triggered it all and left everyone white knuckle gripping the old wooden

Kitchen table.

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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