It came to you to stay,

      To take your life away

      When the doctor said, “Cancer”

      You knew God had the answer.

You still had living you wanted to do

Your life couldn’t be through

You knew you had to fight    

And put this thing to flight

Then came the shock and reality

It would take your personality

Treatment would make you feel so sick

You just wanted something to kick.

Why me, Lord, you asked

He answered. “I knew you were up to the task

I chose you, for this, my darling child

Just keep the faith and always smile.”

So you held your head up high

And quickly released a sigh

I will not fail you God

The path you given me I will trod.

The road you traveled was long and hard

But you kept pressing your way through tears and pain

To lose all of your hair was just so hard

But you knew if you kept on there was so much to gain

Then one day no cancer cells could be found

Then raise your hands to God, you are no longer bound

By the disease that tried to take your life

Because, you see, it didn’t beat you, you survived.

Now, pray and thank God every day

For keeping those cancer cells away

And if some day they should return

You have lived to fight another day and learned

That no matter what life throws at you?

God will always see you through

So live life every day, be alive

Then, you too can say, I survived.