A bucket list in verse
Stargaze
CHAPTER
1
Author:
pandaactress
Okay
One evening
I get a call
It’s from the doctor
They found something in my scan
It’s probably nothing
But I go in anyway
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I hate hospitals
There’s death everywhere
Surrounding you
Choking you
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They run some tests
And give me extended screenings
Just to make sure I’m okay
-
I’m not okay
They say I have cancer
I ask them to repeat it
I have cancer
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It’s lung cancer
Stage four, they say
But they can treat it
So I can live longer
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I say: “Okay”
But they don’t stop
They keep telling me
Everything that’s wrong
With me
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The survival rate
For my kind of cancer
Isn’t even three percent
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Then they leave
As if everything is okay
Even though
Nothing is okay
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“Okay” doesn’t even look
Like a word anymore
Just a lie
To get through the day
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But I know the truth
I’m going to die
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