Chemo Children

A child weeping.
Inconsollably.

Chemotherapy
Seeping slowly.

A teenaged boy
Puking out his guts.

I wish, I wish, I wish
Life didn’t hurt so much.

Chemotherapy

Birds outside this room
Fly so completely free –
Oh, what do they know
Of chemotherapy?
They are part of Nature –
Which is just fire and ice –
With no manmade notions
Of virtue or of vice –
So ignorant they fly –
I wish I could too –
With no view of life
And of death no clue.