Poems About Cancer Seeking Honest Critique
#cancer
last breaths don't linger
Everyday was the same
until it wasn't
the days grew old without us noticing
until they weren't there at all
She believed in small miracles
no man or god could ever deliver
but we stoked that hope
like a fire that would never die
because without hope
there would be no peace
between the spaces of sleeping
and waking and breathing
There was no better tomorrows
despite our hopeless dreams
time had run out
on the feel good days
were we could sit outside and paint
blow bubbles into the wind ...
until it wasn't
the days grew old without us noticing
until they weren't there at all
She believed in small miracles
no man or god could ever deliver
but we stoked that hope
like a fire that would never die
because without hope
there would be no peace
between the spaces of sleeping
and waking and breathing
There was no better tomorrows
despite our hopeless dreams
time had run out
on the feel good days
were we could sit outside and paint
blow bubbles into the wind ...
#love
#family
#death
#cancer
#grief
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Regret
Overloaded with Information
Google adds confusion
Failing to gain insight
Feeling alone and preoccupied
Sweat covers her fingertips
Desperately she scrolls
Searching for details
her anxiety takes control
Unsure of what she'll find
Regret adds tension
Conflicting facts confusing
Potentially devastating impact
Overcome with guilt
Wondering why
she was lazy
Disrespecting her body
Awareness
Pink ribbons the sign
A simple exercise
Five minutes the...
Google adds confusion
Failing to gain insight
Feeling alone and preoccupied
Sweat covers her fingertips
Desperately she scrolls
Searching for details
her anxiety takes control
Unsure of what she'll find
Regret adds tension
Conflicting facts confusing
Potentially devastating impact
Overcome with guilt
Wondering why
she was lazy
Disrespecting her body
Awareness
Pink ribbons the sign
A simple exercise
Five minutes the...
#sadness
#regret
#hope
#death
#cancer
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17 Comments
watercolour Jesus
Water glides across the paper
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
#death
#philosophical
#cancer
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8 Comments
hangman's C
I watch her live like grains of sand
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
#love
#family
#death #cancer
#death #cancer
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Found Your Obituary Online
They gave your ashes to the sea
I whispered goodbye into the salt air
still wondering why you didn't tell me
it came back
I whispered goodbye into the salt air
still wondering why you didn't tell me
it came back
#grief
#death
#cancer
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Unlisted Number
Don’t follow me like you know me,
You don’t and never will.
Big disrupter of all good things,
I’ll fight you with all my might.
Soft peddles of my gardens growths needs me for the prize,
It’s cycle is short,we are not alike
Hanging around like your on a mission,
I know your there
It’s too soon it’s not fair
If a prayer each day can keep you away
Pack up your shit not today
Not sure how you got my name
My number is unlisted
Your losing this game
I’ve made it through another day.
You don’t and never will.
Big disrupter of all good things,
I’ll fight you with all my might.
Soft peddles of my gardens growths needs me for the prize,
It’s cycle is short,we are not alike
Hanging around like your on a mission,
I know your there
It’s too soon it’s not fair
If a prayer each day can keep you away
Pack up your shit not today
Not sure how you got my name
My number is unlisted
Your losing this game
I’ve made it through another day.
#cancer
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That Cancer Bitch
Can't even begin to imagine the hurt and pain that you're dealing with
Sitting here wishing I could erase that cancer bitch
It's sad how this disease affects the entire family
Forcing people to deal with tough challenges
That never really crossed their minds things they thought would come at a later time.
It's a hard thing to deal with
Facing that cancer bitch
I know that times are hard for you right now but you're trying to remain strong
That's why I'm here with you to remind you to keep holding on
Know that I'm in your corner and will always...
Sitting here wishing I could erase that cancer bitch
It's sad how this disease affects the entire family
Forcing people to deal with tough challenges
That never really crossed their minds things they thought would come at a later time.
It's a hard thing to deal with
Facing that cancer bitch
I know that times are hard for you right now but you're trying to remain strong
That's why I'm here with you to remind you to keep holding on
Know that I'm in your corner and will always...
#sadness
#strength
#cancer
#emotions
#fear
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I Just Can't Put You Through This
I was doing just fine alone with my illness
Why did you have to come into my life?
This is happening at the wrong time
I have brain cancer, it’s an incurable disease
Medical science can’t do anything more for me
How could you love me when I’m dying?
My condition is worsening day by day
What will you do when my body starts to deteriorate?
I shan’t look the same way I do now.
Will you be able to cope with the situation?
It will be an unpleasant sight to behold
If I lose my sanity, I couldn’t appreciate your love
You say no...
Why did you have to come into my life?
This is happening at the wrong time
I have brain cancer, it’s an incurable disease
Medical science can’t do anything more for me
How could you love me when I’m dying?
My condition is worsening day by day
What will you do when my body starts to deteriorate?
I shan’t look the same way I do now.
Will you be able to cope with the situation?
It will be an unpleasant sight to behold
If I lose my sanity, I couldn’t appreciate your love
You say no...
#love
#grief
#death
#illness
#cancer
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LANGUAGE AS VIRUS OR CURE (4-13-2020, 12:25pm, Palm Springs, California)
words
and languages
can be
malleable
and fluid
powerful
or weak
healing
or destructive
loving
or hateful
deadly
or benign
just as
they can
also either
be
an ignorant
common vulgar
invasive
viral infectious
disease
or an
equally invasive
infectiously uplifting
inspiringly transformational
channel
and vector
of luminous
healing art
depending
of...
and languages
can be
malleable
and fluid
powerful
or weak
healing
or destructive
loving
or hateful
deadly
or benign
just as
they can
also either
be
an ignorant
common vulgar
invasive
viral infectious
disease
or an
equally invasive
infectiously uplifting
inspiringly transformational
channel
and vector
of luminous
healing art
depending
of...
#anxiety
#SelfHarm
#illness
#apathy
#cancer
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3 Comments
"For Now"
The cancer is alive
Deep down in my blood...it boils
I have no hair...just scraps and hard veins
My tongue hangs to the floor
My eyes are slits
My teeth bleed
My nose is crusted
My ribs are torn
My knuckles peel
My skins gone gray
My eyes gone black
My toes curl into each other
My ass bleeds
My breath tastes like a hooker’s armpit
But I’m alive...for now.
Deep down in my blood...it boils
I have no hair...just scraps and hard veins
My tongue hangs to the floor
My eyes are slits
My teeth bleed
My nose is crusted
My ribs are torn
My knuckles peel
My skins gone gray
My eyes gone black
My toes curl into each other
My ass bleeds
My breath tastes like a hooker’s armpit
But I’m alive...for now.
#cancer
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5 Comments
Welcome to the Machine (MRI dreams)
I’m in the feeding tube
frantically opening files
trying to escape the host.
The steel door slams shut,
I have sand between my toes
Dizzy from dinghy inflation,
burnt from bare excavation,
already raced from rock to pool,
the daylight’s pink begins to cool
Our sunset supported by fish and chips,
greasy fingers and salty lips.
Empty beach with a curled up fleece,
children yawn, storied to sleep.
We hold each other take some time,
watch the waves with a bottle of wine.
Cooling sand shows remnants of...
frantically opening files
trying to escape the host.
The steel door slams shut,
I have sand between my toes
Dizzy from dinghy inflation,
burnt from bare excavation,
already raced from rock to pool,
the daylight’s pink begins to cool
Our sunset supported by fish and chips,
greasy fingers and salty lips.
Empty beach with a curled up fleece,
children yawn, storied to sleep.
We hold each other take some time,
watch the waves with a bottle of wine.
Cooling sand shows remnants of...
#cancer
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4 Comments
Ghost in the Binary
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#cancer
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DU Poetry : Poems About Cancer Seeking Honest Critique