Science Cancer Poems

Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought, 
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not. 
His sister recently had passed...

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Worry knot chokes out the living daylights

I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily...

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1. We, humans, belong to Earth, rather than earth belongs to us.

2. One handicap we have is our biggest organ (NOT THAT!) but our SKIN:
The...

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Older Than I Remember

Things have not gone, 
the way that you believe they should. 
I have not said a thing. 
Things are not what they...

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silly i was
prioritising all the wrong things 
they seemed right then 
not anymore

now i search 
from article to article
website to another 
trying to soothe my...

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Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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It was with a heavy heart I left the house, choosing no make-up in anticipation of the tears I might cry.
Being faithfully spiritual, I know...

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Longevity dreamers don’t wanna
deal with me
I’m short straw bad for good health
Liquidators that are paid handsomely
to handle the hazard,
don’t quite make it home safely
after coming...

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Humanity itself
Riding off on horse
Not just pale, but albino
Leaving in its wake
Filth and destruction
Life reduced
To the most resilient
Nature’s wonder
Evolution
Stalled
For now...

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We are defined by many things in our lives.
  You're a good son. A great older brother.
  An eagle scout and crazy ass...

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Life is an uphill battle
No credit only blame
You play the cards they hand you
But there’s no meaning to the game
The rock rolls down upon you
And...

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My body's on screen
The see through of me
And I'm clean

Never felt so free

My hearts a machine
My lungs make me breath 
Their function is seen

The picture...

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The dreadful phone call came, “we have bad news”.
Somehow I already knew, but the words screamed in my mind.
“You have cancer”, and an aggressive kind.
For...

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Cancer may redefine your life
	or cause you to do so

	but it does not define you

It is not you, by definition
	in fact it is the anti-you

It...

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You swallow billions in cash, yet your assault strengthens,
everything with life now stands on one side against you
but your unpredictability is what gives you this...

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