Sister Cancer Poems

I tried to write a poem about you
l couldn’t….tears clouded my eyes
I felt that terrible sorrowful sinking feeling 
I just cried …..

So many years missing...

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10 o'clock am the morning 
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July 
Morning of 2038. They had a...

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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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Women in my family have to fight
Fight to live fight to die
One born premature with challenges
With a heart so pure settling the balances 

She was...

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Life

Life is full of pain, 
and I don't know why? 

I do in fact...
know the Lord, 
I know Him... 
by name. 
He is with me....

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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Broken Glass 

Bits of color...
washed up on the beach. 
Items that tell stories, 
about faraway places, 
new people, and old. 

Red like roses, fine wine...

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If I had known Gert had cancer I might have backed off.
No, you wouldn’t have.
How do you know?
I know you.

But if I had known it...

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My mother had the energy of a five-ring circus
She refused to walk with slow people
unless they let her run circles around them while she walked

She...

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Don’t lance it everyone I know begins to sing. 
Don’t! Don’t! Don’t!  it’s not good idea!~
I lanced it myself last time, and they know...

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I have become what you have made of me
A setting stillness in the air
You fail to see how much I’ve changed 
I am here, just...

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In our first years together we bought a caravan
The living conditions weren't ideal but we had a plan
We moved around a bit so the Council...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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When you told me..,,


When you told me you had cancer,
 i could not believe it.
My little sister is poorly and I wish it was me.

You...

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I have no words
For the pain that I feel
Doesn’t compare to what
You’ve gone through

When I think of you
I remember when
We played house and school
Linkin logs...

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