A man
Came into work
The other day
Who had
No Nose
Just a big gaping hole
Where it once was!
It was hollow
To look into
Empty to gaze upon
A moon crater
A Grand Canyon
Scaled down to size
My coworker
Was totally freaked out
By the sight of this
The man told us
He had cancer
And
The doctors had
Cut away half his face
A facelift
Of
Lifesaving slices!
He said
He now
Was going through
Radiation treatments
Chemotherapy
The thought
Came to me
As it does every time
I run across
Yet
Another example
Of
Modern medicine
Who needs horror stories
When we have examples
Of
Saving lives like this?
Doctors keeping people alive
With half of their face
Missing
Is not some amazing feat!
What’s amazing
Is the folks that have
Not had their bodies
Cut on
And
Are not taking
Radiation baths
Believing somehow
The ones who are
Are better off than
Surrendering to death!
Yes
Cancer is the gnashing teeth
Of
Humanity
Yet
People tremble
At the thought of death!
With all of the steadfast
beliefs
Of
Better tomorrows
On the other side
Or
Coming back
As something else
To live again
People are still willing to
boil
Themselves down
With nuclear exposure
To not go on
To the next world!
Reality is strange
Sometimes
And
Is bursting at the seams
With an undeniable truth
When self-preservation
Is involved
From my book, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
