cancer causing indifference.

I used to cross my thighs to tease,
now I dot my eyes with tears.

But I can’t get you to leave me.

Apathetic.
Sympathetic.
Empathetic.
Simply pathetic.

I can’t get you to leave me.

Poisons pumped to relieve me,
the medications, they deceive me.


Heaving.
Grieving.
Deceiving.
Never leaving.

I can’t get you to leave me.

Annuals always get to die
so why, oh why, can’t I?

Melodrama
Melancholy
Melanoma
Melting away.

Why won’t you just leave me?

You are my radiation,
just a palliative fixation.

Noting
Nodding.
Noticing.
Needing.

I just need you to leave me.

The never ending purging,
the pain forever surging.

Convulsing
Conforming.
Confusion.
Cancer.

Please, Dear God, just leave me.




©2001 by Cher Ladd-Vuolo