Noodle Prompt / lower case, upper case

Caring or caring?

Five days hospitalized — not a card or a bouquet, not an email, call, or text.

One day in surgery — not a card or a bouquet, not an email, call, or text.

Caring was absent, compassion was missing, humanity was lacking.

Until . . .

You needed me, my expertise for what you refuse to learn.

My knowledge for what you can’t be bothered to research —

Clicking help, too bothersome, Googling, too challenging, bothering me, easy.

But, must show you care — not Care, as in real concern, but care, as in I need something from you.

Are you feeling better? Hope you’re healing. I care.

Your empathy is underwhelming, your concern is nonexistent, your caring is not Caring . . .

At least not for me, cause it’s all about you and you is them,

Because it’s not just one, one wouldn’t hurt so much, one wouldn’t inspire a poem

About Caring and caring — about not Caring — it’s a group shunning,

I thought work was personal, that co-workers were friends, I was deceived or stupid.

Don’t bother with that last paragraph on the email begging for help, the false words of caring,

I am feeling better, I am healing, And, you don’t Care.

In response to this Lower Case/Upper Case prompt by Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她):

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