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Cancer Basher Psalm For Leah Still

O LORD for great pain Cruel suffering caused Fierce threat they present Slash each cancer mass Leah's body from Let not one escape Please do not relent Toxic chemo drugs Poison tumor thugs Poison tumor thugs Body's soldier cells Target and destroy Traitor cancer cells May her capillaries' Life-nourishing blood From them be withheld All to waste away Starving each to death Hot radiation fire To ash blast them all To ash blast them all Each one sterilize Not to multiply Vicious malignancies Banish far to Hell Down deep them exile To bottomless pit Drag them captive all To lake of fire burn Opposite set guards Against all of them To never escape To never escape Or wreak harm again Nurses and doctors And medical staff Who for Leah care Grant marvelous skill O LORD we pray you Wisdom bless research This plague to destroy Ever slay our foe It totally smash Nevermore to hurt LORD grant divine peace All understanding past Leah and Devon Your mercy await Cancer Basher Psalm for Leah Still by Ralph Dave Westfall is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Note: OK to replace names with others who have cancer or their family members, if those changes are indicated

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Date: 12/20/2014 9:23:00 AM
Ralph, A nice warm WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you enjoy the community. You'll find many friendly poets, who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I want to be the first to invite you on over, to the contest page. I OFFER MY CONTEST, in hopes it inspires you to write another poem. I look forward to following you and your poetry:) Here's the link to the contest page. http://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry_contests/ <---~Take Care, Enjoy the Christmas Holidays! From: your new poet friend @-> LINDA <-@
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Date: 12/11/2014 5:08:00 AM
- Warm welcome to PoetrySoup, Ralph - I choose your first sad, touching and well written free verse - Nice to meet you! - Hope you will be satisfied with our "soup family" - we are many .. but has plenty of room for you too - Keep the PoetrySoup as a haven - (Comment on the poetry of others and they will comment on yours.) Thank you for posted your words and thoughts here, I want to come back to read more another day. - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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