Our Hearts Will Always Touch
When I lay there beside you,
Could you feel me there?
My arms were wrapped around you,
And I was stroking your hair.
Cancer Poems
Sad and Inspirational Cancer Poems
Cancer, the dreaded "C" word. It has become such an epidemic in our society that people are loath to even mention its name. Cancer is a disease that can affect many different parts of the body. Some of these diseases are more serious than others. It is not only the disease that is painful but also the many way of treating it. Radiation treatments may kill the cancer but are also dangerous for the body. Chemotherapy comes with many side effects such as hair loss and severe nausea. The many faces of this disease challenge an individual to show their fighting spirit and will to live.
Poems about Losing a Loved One to Cancer
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Tears to my eyes and an ache in my heart is all I can say about this poem. I can feel her yearning to be with her mother again. I can feel her emotions of love and great loss and grief, and I...
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5 Years Old
Child Dies Of Cancer PoemWhat would you do
in 5 short years?
Would you make them the most
or hide from your fears? ...Featured Shared StoryMy daughter Zinhle Snethemba Nkabinde also lost the battle at only 14 months from Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor having been diagnosed at only 12 months, to this day my heart is still...
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Goodnight Our Hero
Son Died Of Cancer PoemPicture
To be brave is to cry
But still to fight on,
And that's what you did,
Our hero, our son.Featured Shared StoryI am so sorry. My great grandma died from cancer and so did my grandma. It must've been so hard for you. I can't imagine what you went through losing your son. I'm so sorry for your loss.
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A Stranger Comes To Call
Some weeks ago through medical doubt
I met someone I'd heard lots about
I never thought our paths would cross
Our meeting left me at a loss....Featured Shared StoryI love this poem. It touched me. Great rhyming and I really like the title.
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I Hate You Cancer
I hate you I hate you
Oh why can't you see?
How you took my heart and broke it
When you took them from me!...Featured Shared StoryI totally relate!....unfortunately. My Mom fought and beat breast cancer almost 20 years ago. Hooray! Then 4 years ago got uterine cancer and beat that too!!! For 3 and 1/2 years. We just...
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To My Mom
Keep Fighting Cancer PoemIn your eyes I see the pain,
Slowly the tears roll down, they won't refrain.
I look down to the floor as if I'm hiding,...Featured Shared StoryI lost my mom to cancer. It was the worst time of my life sitting watching a wonderful woman suffer so much.
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My Special Sister Vicki
My special sister, I want you to know how much you mean to me.
My special sister has strength and courage her whole family can see.
My special sister showed us all how to handle life's blows.
My special sister took it all in stride, smiled, and said, "That's how it goes"....Featured Shared StoryI never heard about Acute Myeloid Leukemia until December 2013 when the Orange County Children Oncology Team gave my daughter and son-in-law the diagnosis to their precious 7 month old,...
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Just A Simple Man
Poem Remembering A Dedicated FatherWe miss you Father because it's just not quite the same
We miss that awesome coach and that championship game
We miss you Father for the vacation trips we took together
Whether it be in Florida or Corpus Christi's humid weather ... -
Mothers Smile
I Have Breast CancerI remember your brave face through all the pain,
The day you told us and I tried to remain sane.
" I have breast cancer," you said as a matter of fact,
Yet you didn't shed a single tear you stayed intact....Featured Shared StoryMy mother is battling stage 4 breast cancer. I still find it hard to believe that one day she will not be here. We are cherishing every moment we have with her for she only has months to...
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Life's Lessons
To My Mother Who Died From CancerIt's not fair, I just can't let go.
I sit here and plead, why must she go?
She is my everything, my mom and my best friend.Featured Shared StoryI lost my beautiful mother to stomach cancer on June 16, 2017, on the day my son turned five. She loved her grandson so much. My mother was a fighter and did not want to leave us behind and...
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