A Poor Prognosis

Cold, Clinical, Professional, Detached
I suppose you'd have to be
You probably have this conversation on a daily basis
"A poor prognosis" you said
"We've done all we can do" you did not say
Medicine gives us an impressive variety of options
There's always One. More. Thing. we can do
But it doesn't tell us what we should do
And you can't either

It took a while to understand what you were telling me
My questions were the wrong ones
But they were the hope I was clinging to
So maybe I needed to ask them just the same

As I was falling to pieces
My love stayed strong
She once worked in a place much like this
An invaluable translator from the clinical to the emotional
She helped me understand that there were no good choices
But I had to choose just the same