The Letter
That letter
is scaring the hell out of me
with my wanting to pretend he's not really dead.
So many possibilities.
Maybe they staged his death
in order to protect me
from raising him
for my/our own good and future.
Maybe they decided
I was a bad mother
and placed him with someone else.
Maybe his dad
played the cruelest trick
and convinced the doctors
to go along.
He did, after all,
call the nurses,
after he died,
to tell them
I had choked my baby to death.
(True story)
Maybe it's all been
a bad dream after all
and I just haven't woken up.
Maybe a kind person
at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital
wants to correct the mistake.
.
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