Leaving the Doctor

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This money could be used for other things,
I will say as she listens with an ear I cannot see
And her power waning to hold me.

I will tell her of the woman who said no
And the relief it brought to sense I had been spared
The dangers we face when crossing generational lines.

I will tell her too of the man beside himself
Over a teenage daughter who takes and takes as she leaves him
For her life and another who calls simply to hear a voice

And of the strange city I plan to explore and of the desolation
Or possibility that will await me around every corner when finally
I am away from her. This she will know when I step through her door.

May 2004