Sympathy Cancer Poems

I've been struggling to write this. When the emotions and feelings are too much, it can be difficult to share. But, my discomfort is nothing...

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Will the Russian Mafia sit this one out,
Or will they decide Ukraine's Ultimate fate,
Along with that of Putin.

I suspect we will have to wait for...

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(written for one who lost)

We lose a daughter, then we lose another,
yet find much sympathy that comes from all;
and know such sympathy will reach a...

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Heartstrings levered,
Your skin foliated, 

We tug our veins in a last passage,
Kipper the medical syndrome, 
Cancer made you the sacrificed... 

I clasp my little baby...

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Violent as the gleaming blade
Of a vicious criminal crazed
Ferocious as the lion’s jaw
Lingering on an innocent calf
This wicked affliction forces
Its teeth into the harmless heart
Bites...

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“She was your cousin?”
    They would all echo,
        their half-faux-sympathy was pathetic,
   ...

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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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How can you speak so evenly,
and still with good cheer in your voice?

For I know you have always been one to see things as they...

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POEM " FAREWELL TO A KING " by martin gedge
( RIP NEIL PEART)

Sticks and stones and roll the bones
to the mystic rhythm of your soul
for...

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brrEXIT
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 life!"

Originally published...

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Humility
M'Vatel, "Yield to People",
Concealing, Not Ignorance,
But Adequacy, In not Doing 'Nuff,
To Be a Friend, Husband, Servant,
As  I Observe Great Figures,
I Hope to Be in...

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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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His name is Bob and he is a mechanic 
He suffers from liver disease 
But doesn't panic

He is in need of a transplant
It's very urgent...

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sweet friend, feeling beyond devastated
  your bruised heart weak and beaten
     your body your worst foe

how I would love to...

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He has no food for his stomach to fill
has no qualifications or any skill,
no place to call his own, roof or bedding 
how does he...

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