A World Changing Word

She sits and waits, silent as anyone can be.
She bites off her weakened nails, blankly stares at a magaizine.
She stands up and squares her shoulders
As the nurse's mournful eyes usher her in.
She slowly enters the gloom filled room.
Where the solemn faced doctor waits for her.
His words seems unreal, she thinks that it isn't true.
She doesn't understand why he keeps saying "you."
For it can't be her, this girl that he speaks of.
This girl whose terribly sick and will only grow weaker.
No, she's too young, for this sort of thing.
She's still in her teens, she can't really be dying.
Yet he repeats his deadly words again.
This time tears well in the young girl's sad, blue eyes
She cradles her head and drops down to her knees
And softly whispers, "Am I gonna die?"
The doctor's sad face begins to fade away
As does that deathly silent room
Her tears flow ever so freely, and she looks away
She can't bear to see all the tests
The deadly results that scream out her name.
"We'll treat it, you know." She hears a voice say
As this man tries to tell her there's hope.
But how can there be? She thinks through her daze
As she thinks of the life she won't ever get to live.


Cancer is a heart breaking and shattering disease. It amazes me how many are affected by it, and how I never even think about it...but it could happen to anyone. Anyone that's lost someone to cancer feels the ache and the pain of this fight, of so many's fight...and those who haven't should remain thankful, extremely...but I wonder for how long...before so many more, feel this pain, the pain it leaves behind.

Remember when...

"I've heard that before..."
You utter these words.
My heart, in return
Skips a few beats

Remember, remember...
I silently plead
Maybe you haven't really forgotten
What I used to mean

The days when I mattered
The days when you used to care
You erased my memory
Replaced me in your life...

But I can tell just by looking
You still remember
You think of how it once was
You still think of what was there

If you'd only let me
I'd come back into that place
In your heart, where I used to be
If only you'd let me, I'd never erase
All that you still mean to me

So next time you look at me
And say "I remember..."
I'll wish that you really do
Hope against hope that what you remember
Is the memory of me and you...