She Will Bloom Again

This neighborhood young girl I know has reached very early the life’s terminal, for cancer is creeping in deadly silence on sure clutching feet in her tender lungs. Her drowsy eyes decline to close ever lest the final sleep comes unushered, leaving all her dreams in the distant abyss, takes away the wonderful world from her. Floating on the mist of consciousness she hears a remote whisper waft near, flowing on the feeble breath telling her, ‘fight with courage, don’t give up yet, construct the highway of hope bit by bit, for you have a long long way to go’, but her unsure skeptic mind can’t hold on to the thread of self-belief for long. Thinking sorely the battle is preordained, she’d surely lose with the end coming soon, the girl takes the last flight on fantasy, and tells feebly her distraught mother, ‘freeze me and keep me in a cold chamber in the frail state of suspended animation, the way you nurtured me with care once in your protective womb for so many months. I would live within the dubious domain between the swathes of life and death, until they find a cure for the deadly cancer. Mother, you’d then find in great delight I emerge as a sprouting little pristine bud from the transient spell of hibernation, and bloom in your rejuvenated garden, my petals enwrapping the beautiful world. June 2, 2021 Contest : Cancer Ivy Sponsor : Chantelle Anne Cooke