Dear Cancer...

My mom really cared for you and loved you She told me She was grateful If I only could Make a deal with God And get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building I sit alone internalizing reality Typewriting my transgressions again A feeling I battled so long ago Back yonder in two thousand and ten How do you murder a murderer so silent How do you counter affliction beyond violent How you battle a virus that's so tyrant When do you ask God for science to help a scientist All I have is questions with none of the answers The enemy can move with the speed of a panther Strip away the beautiful song of a dancer Now I've written an open letter to Cancer I know who you are I know what you do But you don't know me so I'm coming to you They say you're conceived within the government Man-made a biological supplement For the poisoning of mankind Because of you, every day a man dies Because of you, every day a man tries But you defeat a superstar until the fans cry I'm asking why? do you give a warning sign To coincide with the scanners of an MRI I wonder what's your body count, do you realize You deconstruct alot of lives and then immobilize I'm looking in your eyes, you come alive in death I remember when you took away my Uncle Jeff I thought I lost you through my courage But you're back to scare me Pray to the Lord but you took away my Hail Mary She was everything to Jen and then her brothers and her sisters A maternal holy grail to Nicholas and Gabriel I was not of her blood but she told me clearly so That I'm one hell of a father and she loves me dearly so So how do I respond Do I look up to the Heavens With a heart full of vengeance and curse God? Nah...he's not the problem Maybe he can give me the tools to solve them You can deactivate the system, the illness you can moderate Paying every penny to chemotherapy operate It doesn't compensate your fatal state of mind A ventriloquist disease with rhythms of every kind You take away the spirit I can hear it in your breath You victimize lungs then you tear apart the breast You infiltrate the colon you're a savage to the liver What was once warm blooded is cold chill with a shiver You left a child bitter now they can express hate You're killing their beloved and slaughter innocent fates You prey upon the weak until they can no longer speak And turntable the beat until the heart drops rate Wait, to the people that survived Tell me your secret please how did you decline I wanna keep this light inclined at least until it shines Stage 4... please let it rewind Why... my life is at a cost This is for anybody who suffered a hero's loss To the monster I've berated on You never know I may be next So what you waiting on If I only could Make a deal with God And get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building Here's advice to the most Cherish your loved ones and hold them close The plague is quick the suffer is slow And if you take it for granted then your love is a ghost Here's advice to the most Cherish your loved ones and hold them close The plague is quick the suffer is slow And if you take it for granted then your love is a ghost I have no hate in my heart for anyone Except for you I might as well prepare myself 'Cuz one day You might come for me too