This is written for anyone who's afflicted with anything… ??But, it was written with cancer in mind. ??My mother has survived Multiple Myeloma for 6 years. ??It will take her eventually…and too soon. ??Others will survive and to them I raise a glass… ??Other cancers will take someone we all know too soon. Let this stand as memorial of their strength and our eternal love for them.
Nooks and crannies of your brain
Stick out of the skin like the rain
On a downpour
That will never seem to end.
Are they tears
Just fears?
As you begin??
To head??
Down that path again.
Knowing or thinking
All these needles will assuage
All the things that cannot??gauge
Your humanity
Your serenity.
Your sanity.
You scraped and clawed your mind
To figure out how you got here.
Did nothing to deserve the way it feels.
Do everything to keep away the fear.
Your gorgeous head…
It shines from razor's edge.
It's my beacon as??
You get bludgeoned
You yet…summoned.
It's the mind inside
That turns the page…
It's the mind inside
That sets the stage
It's the mind inside
That kills the soul.
It's the mind inside
Lost all control.
Some hope inside
The cocktail
That's prescribed.
May you cope outside
As the rail
And road subside.
No one can know what you've done
The pain is yours alone.
Kicking and flailing
Singing through wailing.
Your gorgeous head is a beacon of light
That shines through all the clouds.
Watching you disintegrate
Is the hardest thing
I've ever taken.
Your gorgeous head
The mind inside
The ties that bind
Smiles abide…and abate.
God I hate how I see you change in front of me.
I cannot stand that you're dying in front of me.
Your gorgeous head is the beacon of time…
A time replaced by memory…
Your gorgeous head…
It shines from razor's edge.
It's my beacon as
You get bludgeoned
You yet…summoned.
It's the mind inside
That sets the stage
It's the mind inside
That turns the page…
It's the mind inside
That tells the tales
It's the mind inside
That sets the sails…
Knowing, thinking
These needles will assuage
The things that cannot??gauge
Sanity.
Humanity
Serenity.