Stress Cancer Poems

loss of control. an aberration. a defect,
when the perfection of creation is lost,
a cell grows and grows without a stop,
and all its purpose and function...

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Caregiving is not for the weak
Giving care trying not to be bleak
Medicine changes, pill bottles around
Changing of diapers without even a frown

Pain and regret
As they...

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Life, here hangs on a filmy thread of hope
Unskilled acrobats, making tight rope walks 
With the deep chasm gaping below
Some too fatigued to feel the...

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I stared at the wall
Bricks on bricks
A bench in an empty corner
Built to last
That cathedral

I had arrived by train
Under overcast weather
No rush to get on...

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final curtain
by Michael R. Burch

what would u give
to simply not exist—
for a painless exit? 
he asked himself, uncertain.

then from behind
the hospital room curtain
a patient screamed—
"my...

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Born stressed here,
Peer pressure, pain, and no rest till next year,
Blowing the smoke in my lungs that my chest fear,
It's a mind thing; the pleasure...

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Tripped Up

Things take us from what is important, easily. 
Distractions of life, responsibilities we deem high on the list. 
Missed promises, forgotten details, getting older...

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Cancer takes many things away,
Unexpected, more than I can say.
The first you think of, is your life,
But for me, it took my wife.

It wasn`t her...

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In Sickness and In Health
By Jayson Willever

I met her twelve years ago, her beaming smile as bright as the sun.
With glittering eyes the shade of...

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When their crossing lines, I wish that I
Could let it go, but no I can not let it slide
I hold grudges and let them eat...

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This is a rap for all yo' gangsters,
Who wish to learn how to prevent cancer

If you see a complete change in mole,
Don't think it's all...

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Angels in a cloudy sky;
So slowly do they float on by.
My late sister paints them there;
Her way of saying, “don’t despair”.

She was an artist, in...

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chemo waiting room
patients eat saltines
from a candy dish



Published in Bottle Rockets #42 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on October 25, 2018...

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Journal Entry


Forget what I thought we were it was what we could've been.I know i ?n?? up sometimes but I know I'm worth it all.I...

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Everything went silent 
The monitors and doctors panicked voices 
everything went dead
I knew I was dying 
The first night is the worst
Doctors not knowing if...

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