“A Fling like Cancer”

And you’re back

Like a tumor

I was in remission

Slowly getting better from when I last saw you on my doorstep

Hello again

Can one ever truly say goodbye

To whats been apart of your insides

Cautious to embrace you warmly,

After my guts spilled onto a hot bed of coals

Heaving and thrashing from the fire

Not where we’ve envisioned ourselves

However here we are

Holding another with unhealed scars

I know I wished to have you back

Yet I feel under attack

Smoking under this chemotherapy

Might I once again stomach you

Starting life anew

If I gain no appetite

leave me alone I give up the fight

A wounded dove’s olive branch

Have they made peace from their broken past

Carrying knowledge of what is unknown

A promise in a prayer

is more fulfilling than a wish

You are my deaths kiss