How can I walk among you, <br />Day after day, <br />Yet you do not see <br />This cancer eating me away, <br />Taking my life, <br />Leaving my family nothing <br />But memories <br />Of what I once was. <br /> <br />How can you not see <br />And know? <br />How? Why does it not show? <br />This monster within <br />Is not my friend. <br />Rather it is the demon <br />Bringing my life to an end. <br /> <br />Does this raging being <br />Not show in my ravaged face? <br />My makeup must be <br />Applied correctly, <br />And my eyes <br />Painted on straight. <br />My wig <br />Must be in the right place. <br /> <br />I feel as though <br />It must show. <br />Maybe, so far, <br />I am the only one <br />To know <br />That cancer is killing me. <br /> <br />Scarlett Treat <br />Copyrighted <br />June 22,2010<br /><br />Scarlett Treat<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/day-after-day-20/
