CARCINOS

CANCER is a word that no-one likes.

It’s sound is fear, hushed tones and wet eyes.

CANCER is a word that no-one wants to say

It’s name is helpless sorrow that flicks to the end of a book with doomed impatience.

CANCER  is a word that’s easily explained - never justified.

It comes to us premeditated, or random, and both.

A lifestyle lottery that decides its own fate.

Blind faith tested late and impending knowledge of the unknown.

CANCER is: a fact, a part

Of our world.

No tears; no anger; no sense of unfairness

Changes the truth that this word delivers.

CANCER is a word. We don’t like to use.

Say it quickly and it isn’t really real, really

CANCER.

Don’t repeat it I heard you the first time,

Understood the echo deafening my mind.

Because CANCER is a word that leads to something.

Hair loss, love lost, life lessons learned

Too often too soon to explain a world too hard to face alone.

CANCER is a word I don’t want to hear.

Not anymore.

Never again.