2

Dear Cancer,

You bitch

How dare you come into my life

No matter how stealthy your visit may have been

Your repugnant presence left its mark

The poison of your wrath seeping into too many lives

Yeah, I know you can't be spread like that

But you...YOU don't have to be communicable to infect others

You started small I suppose

Enabled other health issues to trump you

Hiding behind the chronic pain

Hooking your claws deeper when the smoking couldn't cease

Slowly but surely spreading in the background

Unnoticed, untested, uncaring

The only thing in my life that I wish had failed me

Why did you have to visit
Steal away precious moments
Piece by piece
Change the very nature of the one you caused harm
Grow and spread
Until the person I knew better than myself
Was the most unrecognizable face right in front of me

You must have signed a deal with Satan

Jack the Ripper had nothing on you

Somehow you hurt whoever and whenever

Recurring when you please to leave mangled bodies vacant

Loved ones left to mourn

Except we...we have mourn while you work

Watching your destruction slowly take them away

Stay away from me

I know taking care of myself helps ward you off

But I'm throwing up anything I can against you

Garlic, crucifix, silver bullet....I know these wont work

You will take me if that's what you desire

But I'm pleading with you

You've already hurt me enough