Journey Through Cancer
© 23Oct2016
1. shivers
running up
then down
my spine
no warmth
coursing through
my body
This is fear in its finest
adrenaline coursing
enlivening
preparing it for action
It's going to be alright
maybe he'll be safe
wrapped in my waiting arms
Perhaps it's okay
She might even say
'no cancer today'
She didn’t
She said METASTATIC
2. chemo tricks
After my father took his life five years ago, I was completely devastated and broken. I cried rivers of tears until my eyes were so swollen that I could barely open them. For a few days following his death I hallucinated that birds were flying around in my house---and I was not on drugs.
After the initial shock wore off a bit, I went through all the stages of grief again and again. I think I will always be going through grief in smaller ways throughout my life.
