Poetry

Life Expectancy (10/9/23)

79 years
Average life expectancy of a woman
Seventy-nine years

Life expectancy
How will she live as expected
For 33 more years
Average?

Panic takes control
Chest tightens
Breath fights in her airways
Let. Me. Out.

Only 2 years have passed
Since her life went from exceptional
To
This
Daily
Slog

Expectations achieved daily
Laugh
Smile
Keep everyone else comfortable
As expected

Life expectancy

No one knows that she
Hates going home
Wants to keep driving
Never come back
To the expected
Cook dinner
Take care of house
Yard
Kids
Dogs
As expected

No one expects this
Loneliness
Pain
Sorrow
Outrage.
When little girls dream of
Love
Marriage
Passion
Babies
Porch swings.

33 years left
396 months
11,880 days
285,120 hours
17,107,200 minutes
Until she can be with her love again
Average
Life Expectancy