Poems
Our Herd submits poems that help them get through the day when fighting cancer. Some are inspiring while others are just to express how they are feeling.
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The Tear on My Cheek
The void is calling… Do it! It whispers.Just take your hands off the wheel and let the car just drift. All the possibilities run through my head.
Read More...The Grief of COVID-19
One day, we will celebrate again. Together. With those we love and miss. And we will once again be able to grieve together the ones we have lost during this time of isolation. We’ll never get back these days, these memories, these times. But we continue to prove, time and time again, that nothing is lost when we have hope for better days to come.
Read More...I Am Here and You Are Not
As a cancer survivor I’ve struggled with the fact that I survived yet others who I have known and battled cancer did not. Although I’m very grateful to be alive I’ve thought to myself, “why did I survive and not them?” This poem is in honor of those who bravely fought cancer and have passed on.
Read More...#SorryNotSorry
It’s been a year. Fuck you. (x a billion). You took over my life. I’m trapped. I can’t do anything I used to do. I hate feeling so tired. You make me walk like a 70-year-old woman. Everyone walks miles ahead of me.
Read More...Grieving
It’s okay to cry. I tell my daughter when she scrapes her knee and struggles to be brave and hold in her tears. It’s okay to cry. I tell my son when he proudly tells me, “I didn’t even cry when I got a shot.” It is okay to cry. But how come I have […]
Read More...Drowning
With oncology appointments, scans, treatments and more Like waves that wash over me…but where is the shore? There are so many things that go through my head each day The feelings of oppression I wonder how long they will stay? Drowning in helplessness when I can’t get out of bed Feeling some days like drowning […]
Read More...Unlikely Associations
This is dedicated to my new friends Muscle tee shirts Amish dressing gowns Head Scarves All styles here Stale Cigarettes Old perfume Mingling with OPI’s latest: Red & Yellow Chemo Glow Nordstrom Wall-Mart HandMade! Low rise jeans LL Beans’ Old worn out tees… Whatever fits works here Tennis Shoes Sandals Bare feet too Arabian Asian […]
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