No So Perfect After All

A child is born. A mother cries. An absent father flies away.

*blink*

A happy child. A perfect family. A mother, a brother, a new father.

*blink*

A screaming child. A broken body. A lack of answers.

*blink*

A hospital stay. A surgery. A scared family.

*blink*

A diagnosis. A genetic disease. A dying child.

*blink*

A family struggling to adapt. A terrified daughter. A lack of hope.

*blink*

A year of pain and fear.

*blink*

A child with an all A report card. A girlfriend. A future.

*blink*

A college experience. A marriage. A child.

*blink*

An ICU. An aortic dissection. A failed surgery. A deathdate.

*blink*

All black at the funeral. A family without a daughter. A child without her mother.

A not-so-perfect family after all.