CV Poem

I had always been an anomaly

When you're sixteen, your friendships are fickle

though they don't seem like it at the time

As I grew older, I alienated myself because

social anxiety holds you back from so many possibilities

Graduating highschool was one of my biggest

achievements

My college days were a challenge as I

struggled to get through my courses

I felt estranged to my fellow classmates and

teachers

Closing yourself off when you could be having

the best time of your life is onerous

After I graduated from college, I was offered a

job teaching special education kids

This was my passion, for I had fallen in love with

these kids

When I was thirty, I bought my own house in a

beautiful neighborhood filled with beautiful people

Everyone seemed so emulate, as always

and I was the anomaly

I worked as a special education teaher until I

turned fifty-five

I didn't want to retire, but I couldn't physically

handle such an important job anymore

I pondered the thought of traveling the world for quite a while,

five years to be exact

Traveling for the next five years was a memory I'll

never forget

The beauty of the world is transcendent,

for I was amazed beyond compare

When I was seventy, I was put in a retirement home

but I didn't mind because my life was so good

I was seventy-seven when I found out that I had

leukemia

I continued chemotherapy, but it seemed to be

doing no good, the cancer progressed

I am eighty years old now, and I have been fighting

stage four untreatble leukemia

I have 2 weeks to live