Long Poems About Cancer
#cancer
cloventongue89
Poem Published
17th Aug 2021 6:39pm
17th Aug 2021 6:39pm
Too Far For Comfort (repost)
How do I say it any better
To offer some insight in an after death love letter
To commemorate and honor the memory of you
As wisdom pleads with my footsteps
To transcend these words and let them become what I do
Enough about me and my reflection
You're an unseen sight to behold
Caught on a thought as I attempt to utter your brilliance
Anything beautiful and the only thing worth mentioning in me
Is the fact that I'm just the offspring of your undying legacy
Surely you are still alive in me
As I think to reminisce on what...
To offer some insight in an after death love letter
To commemorate and honor the memory of you
As wisdom pleads with my footsteps
To transcend these words and let them become what I do
Enough about me and my reflection
You're an unseen sight to behold
Caught on a thought as I attempt to utter your brilliance
Anything beautiful and the only thing worth mentioning in me
Is the fact that I'm just the offspring of your undying legacy
Surely you are still alive in me
As I think to reminisce on what...
#sadness
#love
#mother
#death
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
16th Aug 2021 7:09am
16th Aug 2021 7:09am
Broken Mind (repost)
Do I speak too real for comfort
Or just something relative to our limited point of view
When lies feel like the truth
And I constantly remind myself of what is true
Yet I struggle to believe or just broadcast for theatrics
Just to have something to say
To prove my existence matters
In some message I convey
What if I told you
Every joy feels like a set up for sorrow
When the daylight of today is but a memory
And I've grown to resent time for the dread of tomorrow
To think of how the patterns play out
When a...
Or just something relative to our limited point of view
When lies feel like the truth
And I constantly remind myself of what is true
Yet I struggle to believe or just broadcast for theatrics
Just to have something to say
To prove my existence matters
In some message I convey
What if I told you
Every joy feels like a set up for sorrow
When the daylight of today is but a memory
And I've grown to resent time for the dread of tomorrow
To think of how the patterns play out
When a...
#sadness
#mother
#dreams
#death
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
14th Aug 2021 6:24am
14th Aug 2021 6:24am
Sentimental Artifacts (repost)
My world fell apart before we trended the apocalypse
You are a week worth a life time
I am frozen in a moment
You are seconds of eternity
I'll never know a paradise like the promise of you
Tie my thoughts together to keep the mind intact
When I'm learning how I'm supposed to react
When there's no how to on losing someone close to you
Just ample opportunities to correct my line of thinking
Like fine tuning perspectives to truth
Caught between processing the way I feel
And contending for hope as love is weaponized in loss ...
You are a week worth a life time
I am frozen in a moment
You are seconds of eternity
I'll never know a paradise like the promise of you
Tie my thoughts together to keep the mind intact
When I'm learning how I'm supposed to react
When there's no how to on losing someone close to you
Just ample opportunities to correct my line of thinking
Like fine tuning perspectives to truth
Caught between processing the way I feel
And contending for hope as love is weaponized in loss ...
#sadness
#mother
#death
#apocalypse
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
12th Aug 2021 10:50pm
12th Aug 2021 10:50pm
When Healing Hurts (repost)
Like waking from a dream to be greeted by a nightmare
I don't know how to deal with this
When I've never known an existence without you here
And the words are a poor substitute for comfort in your absence
But it's the only way I know how to process
Tossed between relief for finality and knowing you're free from pain
In the moments when healing hurts, my heart breaks
And the tears aren't enough to express this unseen bloodstain
Orchestrations of this moment allotted upon the delay of a renewed vow
Postponed for a circumstance beyond...
I don't know how to deal with this
When I've never known an existence without you here
And the words are a poor substitute for comfort in your absence
But it's the only way I know how to process
Tossed between relief for finality and knowing you're free from pain
In the moments when healing hurts, my heart breaks
And the tears aren't enough to express this unseen bloodstain
Orchestrations of this moment allotted upon the delay of a renewed vow
Postponed for a circumstance beyond...
#mother
#death
#spiritual
#despair
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
12th Aug 2021 10:48pm
12th Aug 2021 10:48pm
A Breath Beyond The Grave (repost)
Losing the words for the serenade of my faith
When my sight finds my eyes are lying to me
Perceptions of my natural inclinations
Asking God, how is this my reality?
I watch you gasp for air
On a camera phone next to where you lay
As I lull you with my heart's desire
Wishing I was there
Shadows in my mind filtering the light of day
When my heart is under fire
Nothing is coming out quite the way I intend
When I'm choking on these words that fail
Expressions get lost in the noise
Writing letters, I wonder if...
When my sight finds my eyes are lying to me
Perceptions of my natural inclinations
Asking God, how is this my reality?
I watch you gasp for air
On a camera phone next to where you lay
As I lull you with my heart's desire
Wishing I was there
Shadows in my mind filtering the light of day
When my heart is under fire
Nothing is coming out quite the way I intend
When I'm choking on these words that fail
Expressions get lost in the noise
Writing letters, I wonder if...
#sadness
#love
#mother
#death
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
11th Aug 2021 1:10pm
11th Aug 2021 1:10pm
When The Pictures Taunt (repost)
Back to the new beginning
After all that we've been through
You helped me to get where I am now
But I can't help but ask what about you?
For all you worked towards
To reap the end of all you've done
When you found a new home
When you are lover and not just a mother to a broken son
Don't let this end at merely one opportunity to meet my bride
When she in some ways reminds me of you
For the best qualities of your strength and mercy
Tenderhearted resilience and beauty
The world's got nothing on the view
Family...
After all that we've been through
You helped me to get where I am now
But I can't help but ask what about you?
For all you worked towards
To reap the end of all you've done
When you found a new home
When you are lover and not just a mother to a broken son
Don't let this end at merely one opportunity to meet my bride
When she in some ways reminds me of you
For the best qualities of your strength and mercy
Tenderhearted resilience and beauty
The world's got nothing on the view
Family...
#sadness
#mother
#motherhood
#son
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
9th Aug 2021 5:06am
9th Aug 2021 5:06am
Destination Awakening
Going on, ignored
Seeking to forge significance of our scars
Selling wounds for affection
Damage control
Puppetry of sorrow
Tragedy like a marionette
Emotion gets the best of me
I'll say what you'll silently relate to
While we dismiss our honesty
To put impulse in its place
And discipline our faces
Till smiles are a perfect fake
Flip the script of my confessions
When everything is recalibrated
Set the thermostat, don't just take the temperature
Realism is relative to perceptions bid
Esteemed...
Seeking to forge significance of our scars
Selling wounds for affection
Damage control
Puppetry of sorrow
Tragedy like a marionette
Emotion gets the best of me
I'll say what you'll silently relate to
While we dismiss our honesty
To put impulse in its place
And discipline our faces
Till smiles are a perfect fake
Flip the script of my confessions
When everything is recalibrated
Set the thermostat, don't just take the temperature
Realism is relative to perceptions bid
Esteemed...
#mother
#LifeStruggles
#addiction
#morality
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
7th Aug 2021 2:47am
7th Aug 2021 2:47am
The Funeral of Doubt
Everything in me aches for you
My heart is like an anvil
Thoughts of you consume me
It hurts to be so far away
Feeling like every moment is critical
Part of me is here
Yet I continue to groan inside
Anger is a fire in me
The anguish is an overwhelming undertow
I try to maintain a level head
Steady waters in a deep and distant ocean
No one can see what swells beneath
Its 2 am and I can’t sleep
I have a battle cry within
Waging war on an unseen enemy
Everything reminds me of you
Taking a calculated...
My heart is like an anvil
Thoughts of you consume me
It hurts to be so far away
Feeling like every moment is critical
Part of me is here
Yet I continue to groan inside
Anger is a fire in me
The anguish is an overwhelming undertow
I try to maintain a level head
Steady waters in a deep and distant ocean
No one can see what swells beneath
Its 2 am and I can’t sleep
I have a battle cry within
Waging war on an unseen enemy
Everything reminds me of you
Taking a calculated...
#sadness
#mother
#faith
#spiritual
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
6th Aug 2021 4:56pm
6th Aug 2021 4:56pm
I'll Save A Dance For You (repost)
Thinking of you
These thoughts that occupy my mind
Trying to focus
Even the sunrise is darkness
When sight is faith blind
First night back
It was all I could do
To keep my emotions to myself at work
When all I can do is think of you
It feels like fire, invisible blades
Words pour from my lips like a scar
Slinging the blood of poetry therapy
Beyond console, wishing I was where you are
I am a bleeding heart
Weeping in the rain
Storms circling
My tears perspire
But fail to relinquish the pain ...
These thoughts that occupy my mind
Trying to focus
Even the sunrise is darkness
When sight is faith blind
First night back
It was all I could do
To keep my emotions to myself at work
When all I can do is think of you
It feels like fire, invisible blades
Words pour from my lips like a scar
Slinging the blood of poetry therapy
Beyond console, wishing I was where you are
I am a bleeding heart
Weeping in the rain
Storms circling
My tears perspire
But fail to relinquish the pain ...
#sadness
#love
#mother
#dance
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
6th Aug 2021 8:49am
6th Aug 2021 8:49am
These Are Not Your Final Days
Heavy hearted and this weight that I can’t shake
Invisible fractures beyond mending
Trying to find a way to cope with this heartbreak
When death is a way of life
Breathing as you slumber, it hardly feels like you're alive
What does it mean to improve quality?
Make you comfortable as you pass or fight to just survive
A little while longer now, when I'm lost in a haze
Surely it is not the end and these are not your final days
Recovery, wake up and speak to me
If I'm a fool to have faith when everything seems so certain a loss
I will...
Invisible fractures beyond mending
Trying to find a way to cope with this heartbreak
When death is a way of life
Breathing as you slumber, it hardly feels like you're alive
What does it mean to improve quality?
Make you comfortable as you pass or fight to just survive
A little while longer now, when I'm lost in a haze
Surely it is not the end and these are not your final days
Recovery, wake up and speak to me
If I'm a fool to have faith when everything seems so certain a loss
I will...
#mother
#God
#faith
#spiritual
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
6th Aug 2021 8:48am
6th Aug 2021 8:48am
Tell Me What To Say
Tell me what to say to make it all go away
When I feel wrong for living as your dying
Just breathe I tell myself
Continue to live and smile, I'm trying
We've got to agree, and I feel ridiculed for honesty
Trying to handle it all the right way
To become what I preach and not just say I believe
You're still alive in some way
But still I feel my heart grieve
It’s more than I can take and beyond my ability to convey
Will I see you before the end, just tell me what to say?
Settling in, this sorrow is playing tricks on my mind...
When I feel wrong for living as your dying
Just breathe I tell myself
Continue to live and smile, I'm trying
We've got to agree, and I feel ridiculed for honesty
Trying to handle it all the right way
To become what I preach and not just say I believe
You're still alive in some way
But still I feel my heart grieve
It’s more than I can take and beyond my ability to convey
Will I see you before the end, just tell me what to say?
Settling in, this sorrow is playing tricks on my mind...
#mother
#God
#faith
#despair
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
5th Aug 2021 2:44pm
5th Aug 2021 2:44pm
When Warrior's Fall
Tragedy ebbs and flows
Like waves against a fractured heart
Divided by faith and the weight
Broken on the inside
And desperate again
Drowning in what if's praying I won’t give in
When the lie seems to tell so true
And sight is my obstruction to seeing You
Seeking something to soothe
The sorrow that won't let go
As the trial steals my serenade
I'm still cleaving to what I know
Moments like waiting rooms between
Relative realities and something unseen
Learning to believe despite what I feel
Tell me what is fake and what...
Like waves against a fractured heart
Divided by faith and the weight
Broken on the inside
And desperate again
Drowning in what if's praying I won’t give in
When the lie seems to tell so true
And sight is my obstruction to seeing You
Seeking something to soothe
The sorrow that won't let go
As the trial steals my serenade
I'm still cleaving to what I know
Moments like waiting rooms between
Relative realities and something unseen
Learning to believe despite what I feel
Tell me what is fake and what...
#sadness
#mother
#faith
#spiritual
#cancer
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