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A test
Someone I knew just died today
I remember when I was small
He would give me high fives
Making me jump up to make contact
A test
I then grew
Taller than him in fact
I was old enough
No more childish high fives
Just conversations
And quick glances
Sometimes a question
A test
But now he's gone
To a better place
Cancer had the last laugh
No-one is laughing now
"You never know what you have until it's gone"
That’s what they say
But in truth
You do
You understand that a fellow human being is going to be gone soon
I hear on the news about cures for cancer
None worked for him
Oh it was just a trial
A test
To see how much he could take
During these times they didn’t pay attention to the other parts of his body
They didn’t see the cancer spread from his chest to his spine
They didn’t see it metastasize
To his brain it spread like a brushfire
He started passing out at random times
That’s when they finally checked
They put him in hospice today
He passed on today
A test
I imagine, a cathartic write.
I imagine, a cathartic write. Very heartfelt as well.
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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "