New Tears Resolutions

...reflecting...deciding...dividing...crying...

I sought the answer
for why I did weep;
Your love was a cancer
buried down deep

like a gentle cell
dividing so kind
before I could tell
it infected my mind

enveloping, feeding
devouring my soul
you made the bleeding
festering hole

I see through the rumors
despite what you say;
no Chemo for some Tumors
Gotta cut 'em away.

I found the answer
and the price was steep;
Your love was a cancer
I think you should keep.

Author's Note

Many of my family members and friends currently battle and have lost the battle against one form of cancer or another. This makes the metaphor very real and tangible, and not just a literary device.

Reviews

[Lunar Lightning]

I am big on metephors, I think they give writing a certain voice and feeling to them and this particular peice is extremely emotional and speaks to me. That's exactly what you want your readers to be thinking. I particularly liked the ending stansa, it gave the poem a kind of... powerful feeling. Great job.

Luna

[Jeff Bresee]

Love can be the life blood, or it can be cancer...and often both as it runs it course. Nice work again.

[Serend1p1ty]

The rhyming. Wow, such talent. That was unbelievable.
That's the best poem I've seen since coming back to writerscafe.
An amazing work right there. Big ups.
The diction was also really intelligent.
I genuinely look forward to reading more of your writing.

Yours truly,
cloud6

[*Evelen*]

Wow! Very nice flow, and great write. Very deep, and sad. Well done =) thank you for sharing =)

[Seashell]

Deep stuff here and well put together to form a great piece. Very clever methinks.
Thanks for share and review.
Babs xx

[Subjective Sanity]

Very inspiring! I really enjoy writing that literally makes me visualize 'a feeling'. I am huge with metaphors because of that. It's the way my brain translates so this hit VERY close to home! I love it!

[Naomi Montana Walsh]

I totally understand this, last year I had first stage cancer , I will be fine , but for awhile I felt only part of what it is like to be fighting something that might distroy you..your poem is very real to me, because I learned that many things are just as dangerous as cancer in our lives they will harm or kill us if we do not get them cut out or treated..

[Anonymous]

I love it. Very, very true. Simply beautiful...

[Shutterbug]

This one is very good. It really touches me in a place that I do not talk about very much. Thank you very much for putting it out there for us to read