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The Lucky One

It came to me once before I said please I want no more But it came to me twice Please go away it would be nice All the chaos and distress My life was surely a mess I said I can beat you this time My life would just be fine Then you came a second time There was no reason or rhyme The second time they were wrong Time was eternity it took so long The cancer did not come back to me I was one of the lucky ones you see Some people do not have that fate They find cancer and it's way to late

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Vassilis Comporozos

Date: 1/31/2015 9:15:00 AM

A song out ofyour heart...

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 1/31/2015 4:19:00 AM

Phyllis , Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups home page. ~Always & Forever~ LINDA

Abdiel Rios

Date: 1/29/2015 8:56:00 PM

This poem should be interesting to readers that have cancer maybe if they read it they might think more positive to fight it

Jerry Bolton

Date: 1/29/2015 10:38:00 AM

Always like to hear the good news of beating cancer at its own game But you are correct, that is not the case many, many times. Loved the rhyming.

Daver Austin

Date: 1/26/2015 10:35:00 AM

So happy for you, Phyllis. Congrats on the selection. Love, daver

Jack Horne

Date: 8/16/2013 2:44:00 PM

so glad you beat this awful disease, Phyll. My mum was lucky too - she had breast cancer around 15 years ago

Hgarvey Daniel Esquire

Date: 3/17/2013 10:52:00 PM

Dear Phyllis, This hits home I can hear the fear and feel the relief of remission I am in remission right now for stomach cancer but there is the fear it could come back.Informative Write. With LOVE ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry

Phyllis Babcock
Date: 3/20/2013 9:59:00 AM

I think once you have had cancer the fear of it coming back is always there. I hope and pray that your are in remission for a long time.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/21/2010 1:49:00 PM

good one . You told me about this already, right? I hope I am not mixing you up with someone else. You had gotten cancer before as I recall. I think it would be a very strange and horrible experience to have to live thru that. LUv, andrea