Coloring With Crayons

Can you help me reach them?

I’m just a little small.

I don’t know if there is a

I’ll ever get that tall.

I need to draw a picture,

To show you how I feel.

I’m just a little scared right now,

And not sure how to deal.

I need the brown for my hair,

And yellow for the sun.

I like that I have dark hair

And I’ll be sad when its gone.

I know that it will grow back,

But what girls shave their head?

I know that I should not care,

Since I could end up dead.

I want to make my cheeks pink

And wear a red dress!

Red’s my favorite color!

It’s better than all the rest!

Are my sisters coming?

I want to draw them too.

I love coloring pictures,

I hope there’s more to do.

Did I really drown?

I can’t remember much.

I do know that an angel

Left me with its touch.

Why did I see it?

What does it mean?

Am I making pretend?

It didn’t feel like a dream.

I am scared to go to sleep now,

I don’t want to die,

When I wake up from my long nap

I hope there’s a butterfly.

Seven hours later,

As my vision, becomes clear

I wake with hesitation,

And a bandage near my ear.

Look,a butterfly!

On the window ledge!

Today, I lived through brain surgery

Mommy, Daddy, I’m not dead!

I want to draw a picture,

Of my family

I want to draw my nurse,

And the doctor who saved me

Can I see my crayons?

I can not reach from here…

But one day I bet I’ll be tall

Enough to reach up there!