Tiearra Morris
I Watched You Die

AwardBlue Ribbon

SchoolCleveland School of Science and Medicine at John Hay

CityCleveland, Ohio

TeacherBridget Lambright

InternSonja Reeder

GenrePoem

Writer's Statement

This is an account of my grandfather's dialysis treatments. I express his pain through my eyes. I write about my own pain while watching his life fade away. In the end, I am left alone without any answers. Alone without a "PaPa" to talk to.