On Cancer Fears

Homework: Change, cycles, loss

In some woman’s liver
Not so far away
A very friendly white blood cell
Approaches another.

They decide it is love at first sight.
They settle in, begin a family.
At first there are only a few children.

And these children,
Knowing nothing about
What is and isn’t socially acceptable
In today’s highly educated and civilized world
Begin to interbreed.

They slowly form a settlement, a town, a city:
A mass.

Until one day,
The kind host of this
White Celled Wonderland
Begins to have feel a pain.

But these self righteous cells
Will have no part in this nonsense.

This complaining and prodding and sampling
That the woman is simply condoning to.

There is no need to villianize
This mean old woman with
Her doctors and nurses and X-rays.
It is quite obvious.

They revolt and grow in power
Against this tyranny. Protesting,
“Human rights can’t stop our fights!!”

Until,
In some white blood cell
In some woman’s liver
Not so far away
A bit of radiation quite sweetly
Meets another.

They shake hands, introduce themselves,
Put their hard hats on and
Begin to work.

And with very advanced technology
And natural curiosity
As simple tourists
They rampage the city.

And soon,
The complex world of cancer
Crashes.

To save a
Much more intricate one.