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Position:Home>Poetry> Please oh Please help me!?Question: Please oh Please help me!!? i have a paper due soon, and I need some info on Linda Ellis's poem "A letter to cancer"!. just give me a link or info, thanks!
PS- dont say "do it yourself" Cause I have tried for days!. So if you are going to say that then just dont write it okay!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My mother died of cancer!. This poem says it so well - the helpless rage toward a faceless killer!. She didn't have a fight left in her by the time her diagnosis was given, but if I could have I would have fought for her!. It is so hard to be helpless before an assasin with no compassion, no intelligence!. Cancer kills so impersonally!. It doesn't care about anything that makes a person so special - it just mows them down like a runaway bus!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A Letter to Cancer by Linda Ellis I have tried to teach my children not to detest, insult, berate, but I cannot follow my own advice when I am so filled with hate!. You are slowly stealing my father and though some say this is God’s will, those words will never stop me from despising you, still!. Yes I hate you, cancer like I’ve hated nothing before, I’ve cried so much, my eyes are dry for tears…there are no more!. If only I could fight you, my anger alone could win the bout, I would crush you down to ashes until "surrender!" you would shout!. And if you were a mighty tree, I would destroy you limb by limb until you swore to put an end to all the pain you’re causing him!. What gives you the right!? What gives you the power!? Just who do you think you are!? You have no feelings or compassion for all the many lives you scar!. If I were a scientist, I’d concentrate on finding the key to your demise; just like those cowards on 9-11, you attack with a heartless surprise!. You personify evil, you are wicked and cruel!. You thrive on others’ sorrow… like cars run on fuel!. You are forever my enemy, my nemeses, my foe, but before you take my best friend, there’s something you should know… He hasn’t relinquished his dignity; his inner strength shall persevere and you’ll never have the satisfaction of realizing his fear!. Because if you had a face, he would look you straight in the eye and he’d say to you what he’s said to me… that he’s not afraid to die!. You may have chosen his last day and though he may be near it, your power has its limitations because you’ll never break his spirit!Www@QuestionHome@Com Have a look here =] http://www!.cancercompass!.com/message-boa!.!.!. why thumbs down! i gave the poem!Www@QuestionHome@Com |