Lump

The news just isn’t that good today.

Forecast dim,

Scattered showers.

A lump in throat forms,

A side effect of the one just discovered.

Just another case of cause and effect.

Statistics dance in background,

They mingle with countless questions

Why?

How?

What next?

Really?

Yet forecasts are just an educated guess,

And diagnoses are far from fact.

The sun shines today,

In spite of showers forecast.

A lump gives way to a smile.