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When we found out a friend of ours has cancer…

the news immediately darkened our day.  

We wondered how we can help her on this journey fate created…

what can we do or say?

She knows all the things cancer can do…

She’s been to the doctors…read the literature too.

Perhaps, we thought, the best plan of attack…

is to remind her what cancer can’t do.

Cancer cannot take away her sense of humor…

with her memories cancer can’t elope.

Cancer cannot poison the friendship we’ve built…

or shatter our faith…and our hope.

Cancer cannot erode our feelings.

It cannot make the love we feel end…

Cancer cannot stop us from being there…whenever our friend needs a friend.

We can let her know it doesn’t matter where we might be…

any place…anywhere…any time…

If she needs us we will be there 

as this next mountain in life she must climb.

I suppose the best thing we can do when a friends has cancer…

is just show them how much we care…

and through the darkness that has descended on all of us…

do our best to shine a little light into theres.