When pain grips tight and shadows fall
My mind retreats to that chilling call
Cancer's cruel onset a memory so stark
A journey through suffering a journey so dark
Needles pierce skin as drugs start to flow
Veins carry destruction cell by cell slow
In that chair I sit fear's tears I cry
Wondering pondering could I have denied?
Is there a way a path I missed
To shield my life from cancer's kiss?
Answers elude they slip they slide
In poison's cure we're forced to abide
Families fray bonds tear apart
The unknown outcome a heavy heart
But if fortune favors and life extends
In poison's cure we're forced to abide
Cherish the laughter the love, the light
Live to the fullest with all your might
Yet memories linger they haunt they stay
Pain's ghostly echo won't fade away
Silent battles in darkness fought
Kin's memories with sorrow fraught
A silent guardian I choose to be
To spare them the past's painful decree
If only science with gentle touch
Could erase this scourge we loathe so much
A beam of hope a cure so just
Without the poison in which we trust
For now we fight with what we've got
In hope and love our battles fought
May a day dawn when pain's a rust
Cured by beams not poison's must