Poetry / Poem

Count Me Out

Written to the prompt “Count Me Out”

My father asks if I would like to attend a wedding with him,Some aunt, or was it cousin, certainly not grandparentMy father does not know I suffer from sudden onset disease,Symptoms that only crop up when mentions of distant family are brought to the fore,My father asks why am I always to sick to attend weddings with him,Perhaps he wonders if I would have attended his