Walking Away From Cancer
As long as this journey has been
There is a lot of inertia
Walking away from death
It is a slow process
It is a slow crawl
Patience has been worn
& it’s too fucking easy
Just to lay down in the recliner
In front of the tv & die there
Who would blame you if you did
This journey is hard
& requires the will to live
©2022 Michael D. Grover All rights reserved.
Michael D. Grover is a Florida born Poet/writer. He has been publishing his work for over twenty years. Michael has been published all over in print and on the internet. He spent over ten years as the head poetry editor at the online zine Red Fez. Over the years he’s published several chapbooks. In 2020 he published his newest novel Heavy Metal on Alien Buddha Press. His newest collection of Poems Fuck Cancer Poems Version 2.0 will soon be available. Michael currently resides in Fort Meade, Florida where he lives with cancer and writes haiku.
A powerful poem. I have had many people around me deal with cancer, some winning, some losing, the struggle, the war. This reaches me.
I’ve had several around me deal with it as well. Many of them family. This poem reached me, too, brother Knight. Glad you dig it.
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