Monday, October 15, 2018

Cancer Victim


This unwanted visitor, 
with an unwarranted embarkation,
crept in unannounced, wrought
misery and malignancy-
metastasized body domain,
heralded by an oncologist:
categorized neoplasm,
cataloged astroblastoma;
and for his suffering, a soft lullaby, 
for whom administered a ridiculous
dying prayer to lift his spirits
away from any hope; 
adriamycin drips like ball-fires
running through his blacken veins;
he heads home to his sanctuary feeling
optimistic then loads his gun and 
surrenders there without a prayer.

-John Hardesty 


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