The terrible things I have seen

I have lived a charmed existence I believe

God has always been right beside me

When I think of all the terrible things I have seen

I once saw a man whose skin was yellow

His eyes mellow and so yellow

They were almost red

I asked and I was told his liver had failed

I saw another

He was lame

His skin was Grey

Blood seeping from both sides of his mouth

The sight was insane

I asked

And was told he had a disease I could not name

Another came

Walking in

Barely a month later

They wheeled him out so lean

He looked like a skeleton on stilts

There was another who screamed

Wailed and cried for hours

Before death pried

Him from his tenuous hold to life

I remember the cries…

Remember my cries

The horror before my eyes

I can only thank God I am alive

Because all the horrors I have seen

Are too terrible to describe