Friday, October 10, 2008

Cancer

Wisps of darkness
clinging to my legs.
The suffering drag everlasting,
Everlasting.

The sickness laying about;
rummaging through
the fluffy pillows
of such fragile organs.

"Looking for something?"
No. no.
Just the usual.
Right on schedule.

You cannot be aboard.
I say, I say.
No green card, no papers.
Terror.

I cannot die.
Yet the air seems thin.
I shall breathe till next dawn.
Despite chances so slim.

1 comment:

onearthsoforth said...

I like the new style. The repetition, the subtle rhyme. Plathlike, but your own, languid, sad. I think you are very brave to feel ALL of the emotions--the whole gamut here. "The right on schedule," is severe and heartbreaking, real and true...