Poems & Quotes

Cancer

When you start to wear wigs because you have no hair.
When you stop showing your face around the neighborhood and in school because you've been in the hospital for weeks.
When all of your friends question where you have been but you just continue to ignore them because you don't have the heart to tell them your dying.
When you start to cry every night because you miss doing all the things you used too.
When what's rest of your life is sitting in this hospital room playing card games because you can't leave.
When you cry yourself to sleep because you miss all of your friends.
When your siblings have to lie to your friends or when they have to ignore them as well because you don't want them to know.
When you wish you would just tell them so you could see them one last time.
When you wish you could see them smile and laugh one last time.
When you wish everything was the way it used to be, before you were diagnosed.
When you realize that you don't want to die.
When you realize that you were wrong this whole time.
When you realize you'll never see them again, and they'll weep in your loss.
When you realize that you'll never see your sister get married, never see your nephew grow up, never have kids of your own.
When you realize you'll never hear the sound of your favorite people talk.
When you'll never feel their touch again.
When you wish you could take it all back.
That is cancer, a continuous cycle of wishes and regrets.