The C Word

Stab your dagger in the heart of cancer

Invasive, threatening and not sparing many

Put on your armor and don’t back away

Defy its claws that grapple with loved ones

Kill the cells before they spread too far

Throw chemo on its wounds

and laugh in its face

eradicate it with no mercy

so it won’t show face later

if it regurgitates in the future

and spreads its tentacles

tell it “no” in insistent voice

dislodging and punching it

all the strength you have left

don’t allow it to take

the one you love best.