I am strong
Mentally, and physically.
Yet it took my all my strength
To not cry
To not cry at the horrifying sight
Of my cousin on that hospital bed
Sick with pneumonia.
She would just lay there
With her pale eyes
Her weak voice
Seeing her like that
Broke me.
Someone you love, with something so deadly
It makes the strong weak
It breaks the strong
It makes the immortal
Mortal.
It makes you
Defeated.