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Endless Questions

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What is happening?

The mother says as her child turns blue

The phone falls while she dials

Sirens blare, ever closer

But not fast enough.

 

What is happening?

The mother says, watching the cart roll by

A crash cart

Time has dug its heels down

As the child lays motionless.

 

What is happening?

The mother begs the doctors

But the doctors play a game of mum

An unfair game.

 

What is happening?

The mother chants, drops to the floor

Curling into a child’s pose

She finally won the game of mum

Doctors breaking their silence break her sanity.

 

What is happening?

The mother whispers over a small casket

Tears rain onto the wood

Like the downpour of a storm

Turning to her own mother, she cries into her chest

One mother whispering to another.

 

What is happening?

 

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MIKAYLA COMES is a senior at the

University at Buffalo. She is working towards her BA in English. She spends most of her free time reading fantasy books or talking about baseball. She hopes to teach English in a foreign country in the future. 

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NAME Magazine UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO 2025 

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