The Hat Lady

This poem started out so happy and then went downhill so fast. At first I thought it was about a simple childhood memory of a child remembering the hat lady that came to make hats for her mom, but in the end the reader finds out that the hats are to cover up the bare head of a woman stricken with cancer and going through chemotherapy. It's awful because today in my nursing assistant class today my class watched a woman go through the process of cancer and dying in the end. If I put myself in the girl's shoes in this poem I can't even imagine watching a family member go through a painful treatment like that; it's awful to just even picture that in my head. What the reader thinks is something so innocent as a hat lady really is the symbol of death coming to take away the cancer-stricken patient. It's interesting but true because cancer is one of those diseases that comes in disguise, and a lot of times when it's recognized it's too late to treat.