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timmy's poetry - 37. The End Is Never Gentle
You got cancer and it killed you
And you left me all alone
The pain my friends have been feeling
Brings it all right back home
I sat with you every day right after school
Watching cancer do unspeakable things to you
I think now, about your struggle to survive
Then, I wondered why you fought to stay alive
There is no choice though is there?
We grasp on to each and every second
Our programming can’t be canceled
No matter how much we try
Many times just ending it, has come to me
I never found the courage or strength
To make the cut as deep as it needed to be
Mostly I am thankful I didn’t have the guts
I think of Dylan’s—do not go gentle into that good night
The man had it wrong I think, for there isn’t any choice
Our nature made us fighters
So never can we go gentle, at the end of our lives
And you didn’t, did you Mum, you fought until the end
While I watched you suffer, screaming in my head
For your bastard god to give you some relief
Though he never sent an angel, no he never did
I fight my jealousy of those with parents still
I try to be that generous boy, you gave life to
And remember the lessons you taught me
To do right, no matter what’s done unto you
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