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For Your Love

Show me the love Heal my pain Stop the hurting Don’t complain Love me doctor Like a child Cancer be damned I’ll dance all night I don’t need my hair I don’t need silly pride All I need is love And to feel it inside I can live with the chemo I can take what’s outside But I can’t live without you By my side. Love me or hate me Make up your mind I’m living in a moment A spectrum in time Bye now my love They’re putting me under I’ll be back in time Or in eternity I will float But I will not sink In this leaky old boat Till death do us part I’ll paddle toward light With both oars in the water Holding you tight

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Karen Anglesey

Date: 10/28/2013 10:47:00 PM

Bittersweet acceptance of death. Such a moving poem with beautiful ending.

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 10/27/2013 10:52:00 PM

Yes, my friend, that is me performing for the first time on the guitar. It was hellah nerve-wrecking but accomplishing and fun. Music and poetry go hand in hand I'd say. Now about this poem, we all need that love - we all feel empty without it. Because as you have expressed love truly does heal the pain we feel. I've lost too many to cancer, but I'm sure they died happy, knowing that all around them love was there. And love shall remain. Kay, enough of my mushiness. LOVE this one. Always, Laura

Laura Breidenthal
Date: 10/27/2013 11:04:00 PM

Aw, thanks very much. (: Gotta learn from the pro. Hehe ~Laura

Stephen Kilmer
Date: 10/27/2013 10:59:00 PM

Sorry to hear about all you have lost to cancer, but happy to hear you are performing. It get's easier each time you do it. I have played thousands of gigs (playing the drums) and a few on guitar. Once you realize that most people are just in awe of the fact that you can play an instrument you are half way there. Keep it up. It's food for the soul! ~ Kilmer

Cherie Thomas

Date: 10/23/2013 8:36:00 PM

Wow!!!,,, this is so moving, beautiful...and heartwrenching sad....amazing write kilmer. Ty4sharing:)

Stephen Kilmer
Date: 10/23/2013 8:44:00 PM

It's easy to love someone who is sick, but hard to realize that the cure may be death. And that alos deserves love. !Kilmer

Kathryn Collins

Date: 10/23/2013 10:57:00 AM

You're breaking my heart, Kilmer. To experience it; to watch it. Love is all.

Stephen Kilmer
Date: 10/23/2013 8:44:00 PM

It's easy to love someone who is sick, but hard to realize that the cure may be death. And that alos deserves love. !Kilmer