If There Isn't Anyone Who Is There

Father, as you lie dying, this pain does not belong to anyone.  

Father, as you lie dying, this sadness does not belong to anyone.  


There is pain and sadness 

There is life and death  

There is cancer in bones 

in a body you call yours  


But none of this belongs to anyone

  

If there isn’t anyone who is there, 

who is it that could suffer?