Denial
© January 2006 A. MacMaster

I have a chunk in my gut.

Coal I think.

It burns when you least expect it,
slowly cooking me from the inside out.

To the rest of the world, I appear normal,
run of the mill wife and mom.

Inside it is dark, not cold though.

Moving, burning,
gathering size as it goes.

It makes me sick.

I want to throw up...

but that would give it away.

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"
Kathrine Hepburn