Health Cancer Poems

Today my life at 53,
I think way back and disagree,
With many choices made by me,
They paved my future guaranteed,
I guaranteed to live as one,
I've had...

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I am recovering my mojo, though I have almost no hair
That damn Chemo stuff took it away, and one day it was not there

And it...

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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...

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Every poetic mentor started to talk here,
as if, I borrowed their tissue paper. 
and forgot to claim that,
I had my early mentors, successful, in that...

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I wrote this for a friend who went through a harrowing Cancer experience and survived the disease and the treatment. Chemotherapy is insanely challenging. I'm...

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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...

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From skies above and see below
Let the illness begin to flow

Dissipate its fastened hand
Release its hold, diminish its brand

Restore that to which once was true
Heal...

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treatment commences
cancer eradicated
we remain hopeful

the bell’s rung three times
radiotherapy done
life begins again

live for the moment
we are never complacent
cancer may return

cherish your loved ones
embrace life, it’s...

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Today I contemplate those perfect soft mounds of flesh
the pillows upon my chest

For one has sent me on a quest
a lump you see that has...

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Doctors Said No Chance
Then A Miracle Happened
Miracle Man
10/14/2023

I sometimes sit, reevaluating past living,
for only used clock do I know for certain.
Some clock was wrapped in...

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We need to talk
I was at the doctor
Lump
Biopsy
Malignant
Don’t cry
Too early to tell
I’m scared
Take care of them
I love you
Goodbye...

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The year 2017 will I not forget
at that time received really bad news
diagnosed with prostate cancer no less
shaken in my core really got the blues

But...

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What once stood tall and proud is a shadow of itself 
Weather worn and tired and exhausted from Ill health

The strongest of foundations get weaker...

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CANCER

It began as a swelling
Localized swelling
Painless at first
Then painful

Then came a period of recession
Oh!
What a sweet relief
Wellness reigns again

Then again the swelling
Only bigger now
Persistent
Bigger
And bigger

They...

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So far gone 
Estranged and withdrawn 
Blinded by this melancholic shroud of mist 

This depression revealing 
My inability to confront these feelings 
That continue to...

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