Fire Against Fire

Fate brings her roses every evening to night

Sitting here she's lost about an inch off her height

because this disease is killing her quietly everyday

and the doctor says they don't how long she will stay

 

But the diamonds on her cheeks and the heat of her skin

says otherwise even if she is so sickeningly thin

this fighter will over come Satan's every nightmarish desire

her will to live is like fire against fire

 

Oh and she knows it all to well to die

she's given so much morphine she practically high

and the sun sets out her window and she falls asleep

she wonders if she'll wake and this thought makes her weep

 

To abandon her loved ones in a time of fear

when the deathbed is so frighteningly near

she holds onto the bedframe so she doesn't go any higher

and her will to live is like fire against fire

 

This child holds my hand because she knows it well

I sing her a lullaby of heaven, not hell

because this baby girl of only 13 years

knows the devil isn't deserving of her almost-dry tears

 

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This poem is dedicated to Zoey Amanda Butchet, who is dying of lymphomic leukemia - cancer.

© Madison Van Ausdall

 

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