Akacia Robinson
HOW TO DEAL
She says she would
rather he get
cancer and die,
he suffers that much
hemophiliac,
free bleeder,
autistic,
8 years old
wishes he was the
Hulk or anyone
with powers
exchanging his
life for another
without weakness
or pain, he’s
only 8 years old
Wild Goose Poetry Review 
Sad, and heartbreakingly beautiful! Good work, Akacia!
Thank you Patricia!
How to deal, indeed, Akacia. Your words help me feel this little boy’s pain…and his mother’s. Beautiful work.
You have done this, I think, exactly right. The poem is ineluctable, impossible to escape.