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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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#SorryNotSorry

by University Hospitals AYA Cancer Group - Cleveland, OH December 16, 2019

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.

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Grieving

by Toba Wolf November 26, 2019

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 […]

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Drowning

by Gabrielle Koczab November 20, 2019

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 […]

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Unlikely Associations

by Angie Giallourakis, PhD November 12, 2019

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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