Poems About Death (Week Long Series)

This week, leading up to March 2nd-the one year anniversary of my Step-Dads passing, I will be sharing a series of poems I have written regarding death. Although death is a very sad and emotional topic, it is not my intention to depress anybody with my writings. I just wanted to express all those feelings of losing somebody you love and care about. Especially when you lose that somebody way too soon. And the best way I know how to do that is through poetry.

These first two pieces should give you a pretty good idea of what took Wade away from us. A thing that takes way too many people from this world. Cancer.

"The "C" Word" is actually one I wrote during my Wades first battle with Cancer, in which he won. During that time, a local hospital was running a cancer commercial with the theme being "The C Word". The first time I caught the ad after Wades diagnoses, I started thinking about unpleasant words beginning with the letter "C", that could be used as adjectives for cancer.

"Cancer Alliteration" is one that I just recently created about a week ago. Getting closer to March 2, the emotions were already beginning to stack up, but that pile doubled as I was watching the show "Nashville", on ABC (not a country music fan but a huge fan of the show). One of the main characters, Deacon, was recently diagnosed with liver cancer and in that particular episode, was having a very rough time dealing with his situation. It brought back all the memories of watching my Step-Dad suffer. I kept thinking about how much I hated cancer and how hard it was to watch Wade go through what Deacon is going through, right now. I know, it's just a television show, right? Well, that doesn't make it any easier to watch or to take in. It hits close to home, either way.

Cancer is just a horrible thing, all around. I live for the day that we have a cure for every kind of cancer out there plaguing our world today!

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The “C” Word

Cacaesthesia, Cachaemic, Cachexic,

Cacidrosis, Cacodemomania, Cacoethes,

Cacotopia, Caespitose, Cafrad, Caitiff,

Calciform, Caliginous, Calvary, Camsteary,

Candescent, Carceral, Cardimelech, Caritive,

Carking, Carnifex, Caruncle, Cataclasm,

Cataphyiscal, Catastrophe, Catenular,

Chromatism, Claudent, Claudication,

Clochard, Clonic, Cockamamie, Cockshy,

Cocotte, Codswallop, Col, Commination,

Contumacious, Crackjaw, Crapehanger,

Creatophagous, Creophagous Cryptogenic,

Cutaneous, Cynosure, Cytogenesis…

Each of these words

Beginning with the letter C

Can be used to describe

The worst “C” word of all…

-Cancer-

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Cancer Alliteration

Cancer comes calmly

Cancer quickly climbs

Cancer covers quality

Cancer clots care

Cancer could cease

Cancer questions creed

Cancer cripples chemo

Cancer cooks cells

Cancer click cliché

Cancer cruelly calls

Cancer quivers cold

Cancer kills us all

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