Jackie Bosworth Poet Rhyme

Wake Up Call

Go ahead and take my wife
Now go ahead and try for my life
But you won’t kill me
-- I will not die –
Cut out part of my tongue
Pull out all of my teeth
Peel back my face and watch me bleed
Dismember my shoulder
As if it were a broken boulder
I’ll say “you hit like a sissy” when it’s all over

Indeed, I have seen how strong I have to be
Everyone around is breaking down on me
My friends and family, one by one...slowly
And I’m the one with a cancerous disease

-Boz-

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Diane Christian August 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM a powerful write, some find it hard to cope when bad news comes, my mum had cancer it runs in the family but this poem is a poem of courage, strength, a fighter, and encouraging thoose who are fighting cancer, I work in school and we have a young boy of 8 with lucemia, God bless from diane

Sara Kendrick August 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM You sound like a fighter or is it just poetry. Keep writing. Sara