Hi Maggie! Thank you so much for reading my poem. I did ask my writing partner if she felt that the ending of the poem was too disturbing, but it is what happened so I felt that I had to leave it. So, here is a bit of detail. My dad died of brain cancer when I was twenty. Eight years earlier, he had also a stroke and suffered some brain damage. His medical trauma was so detrimental to our family, at the time, that we actually ended up living in a camper.That was a bad way for me to start seventh grade! He could not work and my mom was the caretaker and breadwinner. She actually ended up taking care of her mother at the time too because she had gotten sick too. I know that the circumstances really took a toll on my mother. She left my dad by
