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[sid] => 29506
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => A FRIENDS LIFE
[time] => 2003-12-16 14:16:59
[hometext] => I wrote this poem for my dear friend who is so ill
[bodytext] => A phone call yesterday made me cry so many tears A friend of mine has cancer it confirmed all my fears Life is so unfair her new happiness now snatched away Doctors left it to late, so now its their judgement day 25 years ago her child was born they adored him so They couldn't have been happier their love was aglow A sister in charge, husband a doctor well respected Everything she could have wanted then comes the unexpected The child grew ill they were looking for all the tell tale signs Blamed herself she should have read between the lines Her son rushed into intensive care meningitis was diagnosed A vigil by his bedside hail Mary's and prayers to the holy ghost Her prayers were not to be answered that day he died God decided to take him he needed him on the other side Mother alone her baby never to hold, drink now her comfort A glass now to hold, refilled whenever she felt discomfort Lost her job her husband and her home all in a year Now all she could think of was getting love from a beer Fifteen years later detoxed stayed away from the drink After hallucinations and seeing the garden was pink Reapplied for her old position as sister in charge Said she was a risk after a dishonourable discharge Picked up the pieces of her crushed and bruised heart In the memory of her son he was an important part Got her life back on course got through the days Some days were hell like going through a haze New job new life worked her way up the ladder Then her dad died she coped how much sadder Her mother died not long after they say of a broken heart Antidepressants to blot out her feelings torn apart Now she has been delivered the final blow in her life The words cancer cut deep in her like a surgical knife What words do you convey to someone who is terminally ill No more chemo four is all she could take now a morphine pill To take away the pain when its bad to ease the torment She says there is no future, just memories and the present I am waiting for a miracle to heal my friends disease I pray for some help in curing her god I cry please I want to ask the doctors why no tests were ever done This is my friend a person she was a mother who lost her son I love you my friend Love xxAngelxx [comments] => 2 [counter] => 265 [topic] => 48 [informant] => sweetangeluk [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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