Best Chemotherapy Poems

Hand on the rail
head bent
sit in the chair
false cheer.
she turns away
asks for a screen
no company no dialog
chemotherapy...

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The first fluid they drain into you
Has color of wine
And they call it the red-devil
The second glitters like glycerine
And drips like tear
In merciless silence

The matron looks at you
For a while
As if she is gazing at the skyline
Through a window glass
And walks away
Like a cloud in...

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So the chemo got the cancer
though I have three more trips to the chair
but for this very moment there is no lump longer there

Its kinda a revelation with the battle going on
but this silly computer game producer
still manages to motor on

I miss the cowboy
He turned out...

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So the death sentence is lifted
I kicked cancers ass

They found no trace of it with surgery
free of that sh*t at last!

Now it's on to radiation
to become a spiderwoman queen

Not exactly what I want to do
but it erases all traces unseen

Those microscopic morsels
the little single cells

that...

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POISONS

Boldly betrayed by my body
It came so fast
Poison coursing through my veins,
My Source, my Self,
Frightening and sure, traveling it’s way
Through me, 
Out to get me from my Life,
Taking my blood and twisting ugly 
Mutations into unfathomable letters,
Indecipherable Latin words,
No longer my lifeblood
But an enemy who...

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My partner and I were never prepared,
for what the specialist doctor said, 
We hoped the chemo worked but dread,
to tell you that the cancer spread, 
Our palative nurse tried to dull the pain, 
But time after time it was bad news again, 
I just had...

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