'Hush,' Learning to Live With Cancer Loss
A woman writes a poem about her varying experiences with cancer, from surviving to losing both her father and father-in-law.
I have gratitude for surviving cancer. Unfortunately, my dad and my father-in-law didn’t.
We never get over losing them, but we do learn to live with it, and we are always grateful for the time we did have with them on this beautiful blue planet called Earth.
Hush
Blue rain glistens
as it suddenly pours
Holy sorrows
spilling onto shining river rocks
Listen
Quietly
the crystal drops splatter
to the Earth
and into the fast-flowing stream
Filling to the brim
with warm, healing tears
This poem was originally submitted for the CURE® 2021 Poetry Contest.
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