Live with it

Cancer strikes more people but death rates are falling

METRO, 7 December 2012

People ask me how

and why I learned to live

with the constant threat

and it’s none of their concern,

but in truth it is their concern

that’s now the only thing

can make me

in moments of weakness

lower my guard enough to cry.

My friend found a tumor

benign, inoperable

a constant aid to mindfulness.

My husband has a feeble heart

that even with a surgeon’s stent

is too weak to feel

anything but impotent rage.

He has learned to express himself

and I to live with it.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet