What If?
What if it's cancer?
What does that mean?
Is the sky any less blue?
Or the grass any less green?
Does candy taste sweeter?
Are lemons more sour?
Does time go more slowly?
Or is an hour still an hour?
Do people show more compassion?
Do others "know how you feel?"
Is perception still reality?
Or is the pain much more real?
Do people nod understandingly,
When they find out the news?
Or gently pat you on the shoulder,
Because that's all they can do?
Am I supposed to be philosophical,
Living each day like it's the last?
Perhaps impart wisdom to my children-
"Kids, your life will go by so fast!"
Maybe I'll just keep on living,
And trust that God knows the answer.
Because I'm blessed beyond measure,
Even if it's cancer.
About this poem
I'm awaiting test results to determine if I have cancer. This poem allowed me to verbalize what I'm facing.
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Written on August 30, 2023
Submitted by Cndrcoll on September 08, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCB AADA EFDF CXAC XGEG XAAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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