The Cancer Sound

A Poem by BenjaminJames

I sat in disbelief
At the end of your bed
As a heartless machine
mocked your heart's final breaths

Fluttering dives and climbs
It beeped the rhythm of life
Spelling without letters
A morose rhyme
Explaining in sighs
You've not much time

Alas
The waves layed down

It cried the tone of death
A sonorous ringing ill never forget
Motionless like your chest
Though you gained the face of rest
How selfish of me
To want you back

Why is life so fragile
So short, so brief
Why must loved ones
Watch each other leave

Why is the end always in reach
And never a mirage in the distance
I truly wish wishing
Made even an iota of difference

Everything about me now
Will have a hint of your soul

Until I grow old and die
Hopefully
With someone at my bedside
With love in their eyes