So this is it, huh?
After all this time you're just going to leave?
When you told me you were so calm, like you words were no big deal.
A smile plastered on you face as you drove with one hand on the wheel.
5 months, that's what they told you, maybe even 4.
You just embraced death as it came knocking on your door.
I know it was an act, I could hear it in your voice.
You were scared to die, yet you still knew it was not your choice.
I acted just like you, as if a tumor hadn't returned.
At home I sobbed with grief, though I told you I was only concerned.
Round two is coming up, your cancer stronger now.
If God really loves his children then how could he do this, how?
I can't believe it, five months, that's the time that we have left.
When you're gone, I'll turn this into a song, and then learn a couple frets.
I'll sing it when you pass, ignoring the pain inside my chest.
I'll cry your tears and laugh you laughs, and this I promise you.
No matter what happens in these months, I will always love you, dude.
You'll die, knowing all my problems, you're the only one that does.
No one else could have been trusted, you're the only one that was.
I've wrote in spite of you and your "better life," but now I take it all back.
For the next five months you'll see me smile, and you'll even hear my laugh.
I love you, man, but now you dying and we hardly have time left.
I'll live on remembering you, I've nothing else to say except,
I'll miss you.
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PoetryA very dear friend of mine has a returning brain tumor. The doctors told him that he only has 4-5 months to live. I wrote this poem as an early memorial to him. I will forever love him, no matter what the outcome of this situation is. I'm not the ty...