This Poem was Submitted By: Donna Jean Holton On Date: 2000-07-07 10:08:46 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Feeling of Despair

Dreading this day,  yet knowing it was coming. I am being dragged down this long corridor feeling like I am shackled and chained  to the one walking along side of me. My breathing is labored I am choking back tears wanting to scream  to run in the opposite direction down this long corridor out the door where I felt safe. Distorted faces of people in uniform standing, pointing towards a room a room I didn't want to enter. Thinking to myself is this what death row is like? So many people around why am I feeling so alone? I enter this room shaking and fighting it all the way four chairs are lined up against the wall along with four IV stands. Which one did I want to sit in to receive my lethal injection? I had to choose soon, this uniformed body is walking towards me carrying this huge syringe filled with a red liquid waiting to run it ever so slowly through my veins. Three and a half hours later its all over, I am ready to go home weakened and nauseated  but still alive.

Copyright © July 2000 Donna Jean Holton

Additional Notes:
The fear of the unknown will get you every time... This was my first session of chemotherapy and the thoughts running through my mind at the time.


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