I found this poem I'd written in my personal box, it is a poem I'd written when my mother was diagnosed with Lung Cancer (small cell carcinoma). She'd already beat Thyroid Cancer and Ovarian Cancer, but the last one got her. This is a poem I had written, trying to give her strength and courage to continue her fight. I was also trying to convey how much she meant to me and everyone else. I wanted her to beat it, as did everyone else! She didn't even make it a year after their diagnosis. I wrote this in 1999 when I moved back from Reno, Nevada to be with my Mom and family. She died on January 24th, 2000. R.I.P. Mom
Awaiting the Inevitable
A year has passed
Since we were told the news
Of how you'll be going
Before your time is due
I'm still not sure
If I have comprehended
The loss that will come
My time with you suspended
I don't want to mourn you
While you are still here and able
Yet it hurts so much
Awaiting the inevitable
Mother I love you
Please don't go
Fight this demon away
Be the first to say no
Don't let it overcome you
Nor bring you down
Stand up for your rights
Kick it to the ground
Cancer is uncaring
Unfeeling of our sorrows
Growing and feeding
Trying to take you tomorrow
Show it whose boss
Brush it all away
Make the headlines
"Mom fought off cancer today"
I know it is hopeless
Yearning this way
Yet I cannot help it
I want you to stay
So make them all liars
Prove them all wrong
You have more time
Their hypothesis is wrong
Live longer and happier
In these last years
Show them remission
Show them no fears
By Samantha Broaddrick
Copyright © 1999
In Loving Memory
Rest In Peace
I Miss You So Much Mom!
Melba Eileen Johnson (Broaddrick) Glenn
October 7, 1951 - January 24, 2000
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Hey there Girlie girl,
Reading this brought tears to my eyes as well as goosebumps. This is such a lovely poem that you wrote to your mom. Hugs to you
Thank you sweetie. I have been having such a hard time this past year. Losing Bobby and my Sambam.
Now I'm about to lose my home. I didn't get my SSI check this month, they're doing some kind of investigation on the moneys I'd won at the casino a few years back.
I have about a week until they send me to court and then get evicted because I don't have the money to pay my rent.
I have no where to go either. I can't even get a hotel room because I'm so broke. I don't know what me and Rosie are going to do. :(
Time to get some boxes and start packing and throwing things away. Thankfully my father has offered to help me move. I have to find a storage unit somewhere that I can afford to put my furniture in.
I thought I'd had a place to move into, but the guy (one of my best friends) told me that he'd charge me $150 a month. Tonight I found out that he meant $150 a week!!!! That is ridiculous, to just rent out a room. That is more than I pay here. I think I'll go blog an article on this. Help me vent, help me feel better to get it off my chest.
Love ya girl! Thanks for not forgetting me and always keeping in touch!
Samantha
Post a Comment