Flat Line Poem by Angela Bontle Ditumiso

Pain cripples me
Of watching you fade away slowly
Losing your life to cancer
And I see that you're truly fighting
The smile on your face doesn't come easy

Every moment you cherish
Because we won't always be like this
Won't always be laughing over old memories stuck in photographs

You know that I love you
I've seen you in battle
I know what it took for you to be here
How much pain you've endured to see me grow up
It hurts because I can't take away the pain
It hurts even more now that the morphine no longer works either

It's been years now
And I fear any moment could be a goodbye
I'm not ready to lose you
Still want you here with me