Light for the Fight

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    Last year, Luna Marie sent me music videos of the Beatles and other music I love. I've been in a painful, fearful struggle since my diagnosis, nearly two years ago. A card from the American Cancer Society reads: ""Having cancer is hard. Getting help shouldn't be." But getting help is hard. The curse of cancer plus the Recession. The governor wouldn't set a tax to keep the free Cancer Clinic open. State agencies--hard to contact--and then they don't help. I'm facing financial ruin. I could end up homeless. My investments--wiped out. My savings--nearly gone, having to pay for medical insurance once employer-paid. Often I feel unwanted. // Luna gave me gifts of music and friendship and love. Once, durring an especially bad bout with depression and fear, I got online and saw some new music vdeos from her. I gained strength from that. That's when I wrote this poem.

    Light for the Fight
    I suffer physical declines from my cancer-treatment's scar-injection.
    I suffer mental anguish from my patient counselor's ruthless rejection.
    The stress she causes me may likely activate
    My cancer, and then swiftly accelerate
    The cancer's spread, by dread cortisol;
    So that those killing cancer cells can carry the message of her hate,
    To the far corners of my bones and my body; for me, then--that's all.
    She is undermining and negating all my holistic hope.
    She might as well have handed me a gun, poison, a razor, or a rope.
    Still, in the depths of my depression, like dying in the deepest dark,
    I find to please my mind the gift of the twinkle of a luminous spark:
    Music and kind lyrics from sweet Luna--lady of love, lady of light--
    To rally me, and help me stay another day in my hit life's final fight.

    Thank you, Luna


    --Written by Michael LP, aka MLP
    aka PoetWithCancer, aka Mr. Poet
    Written on Wednesday, December 2, 2009   7:53 am PST  Fair.  Sunny.
    42° F.  (Feels like 42° F.)    Wind: CALM   Visibility: 10 mi
    Humidity: 35%   Dewpoint: 16° F.   Barometer: 29.95 in and rising
    High: 71° F.   Low: 43° F.   Sunrise: 6:034 am PST   Sunset: 4:26 pm P  ST
    Copyright © 2010 by Michael L.P.   All rights reserved

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    abuelita1 commented on Light for the Fight

    11-22-2010

    You, both are great, talented people who I am humbled by. May you both "Shine on!' and continue to inspire others......
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    abuelita1 commented on Light for the Fight

    11-22-2010

    So glad that our dear Luna, was there to lift your spirits. So glad she had it in her to have you continue your light. I don't know what my life would have been without you two, but it definitely would have been without many smiles......I love you both! Super Angel...come the two of you and rest on Angel's wings..
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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