I believe the poet was dying of cancer as he wrote it and was so brave as he comforted his loved ones. There is a strong religious message, although he does not refer directly to God. I love the warmth, humor, and intimacy, yet it is as though he is speaking from the grave. The...
I lost my mum to cancer on July 9, 2019. The last 2 months of her life were very difficult - she couldn't speak, gesture meaningfully or move much - a living hell for anyone, more so for someone as active and strong as my mum before she fell ill. I am listening to her voice ...
To appease the wrath of the Sun gods, for sunlight for crops near-dead Then the epiphany! The Chinese emperors, had paper, recorded history Poring through ancient detailed records, 1628BC, solved the mystery! The Sun, distressed-red for three years, food plants dying, mostly dead Millions st...
The implication of the rhetorical question was that if the Turks could eradicate a substantial portion of its Armenian population in the 1910s and face few diplomatic consequences for its actions, then what was there to stop Germany from doing the same to its Jews? The casual brutality of the...
And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. ...
to the rainbow bridge in October as well. Miss her so much. She got sick, we thought just a stomach thing, but turned out to be she was ate up with cancer and her time with us was over. She was just the best kitty and we were all so sad at losing her at the young age of ...
--- I've sure gotten old! I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts wit...
PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave this world as she has cancer. Please send this to everyone you know or don't know. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to se...
As tragedy keeps a count of the lives in that have regretfully fallen It seems stranger and stranger almost like a cancer and as in reality Like the illness still no cure only uncomforting tears and unbelief Everywhere we go lurks this unfamiliar danger fueled by anger and hatred This earth...
In July of 2016, my oldest daughter went to sleep and never woke up. While I was grieving the loss of her, I found out 6 months later my youngest daughter had the last stage of bone cancer. She passed away April 2017. I am now grieving the loss of both my daughters. On January ...