LOGICAL

When someone is diagnosed with a terminal diagnosis, it quickly raises so many emotions.  So often I will hear someone say, “Why?”  There is truly no logical answer.   One often searches for answers when the diagnosis is new; but then, I am so amazed how so many patients accept their prognosis and diagnosis.  I hear a lot from patients, “It is what it is.” 

When it is personal, I too, flip quickly to wanting a logical answer, even though intellectually, I know there isn’t an answer.  It really is so random.  No one is being punished or blamed.  It truly just is.  That can often be hard to accept for so many of us; myself included.

LOGICAL 

 

Most of us are logical beings.

It’s such a common way to think.

When life hands us challenging events,

so many of us think logically.

 

We all will, and have experienced losses.

It is so often random with no logic.

We will search for answers as to why,

which likely there is no reasonable reply.

 

She just turned sixty a few months ago.

Four years ago, she heard, “Alzheimer’s”.

Her son has come to care for her.

She thinks he is her brother.

 

I spoke with him about the family dynamics.

He said that his mother is widowed.

His father struggled with diabetes.

He died rather quickly ten days ago.

 

Sadness embraced my soul.

This is so unfair; so cruel.

But then, no one is being punished;

it is, oh so, random; so, happenstance.

 

But then, “Why has this happened?

Give this poor family a break”.

Deep inside, I know there is no answer,

but then, I still want to simply know why.

 

Emotions and grief are powerful.

So clearly, the winner will never be;

                    logic.