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Cancer
Cancer
 A 6 letter word 
 And…
 My life.
 Mama’s getting a divorce, 
 Going through kemo,
 Looking for a new place,
 To call home.
 Me, my sister and my brother,
 All just kids in this mess.
 Daddy just got home from rehab
 For drugs and alcohol
 And I’m caught in the middle of this soap opera
 Called my life.
 I’ve learned
 Crying doesn’t help anything,
 So I hold it in 
 Until I burst,
 Until I go to the park
 With my friends and 
 Cry on their shoulder. 
 Cry about everything.
 Cry about my life.
 Mama says 
 I need to stop feeling sorry for my self,
 How there are people’s lives that are worse then mine.
 I’ve seen things
 12 year olds shouldn’t.
 Meth, pot, drunks.
 Those are the thing that where in my life.
 And I’m not suppose to feel sorry for my self.
 Well too late.

