WHAT IS IT ABOUT CANCER?

an attack

on your smallest

most vital element

your cells

the tiny source of everything you are

cancer reprogrammes cells

not to create and sustain

instead

to consume and destroy

to pull down

everything they were born to build

it’s a murderous suicide

a perverse unnatural act of nature 

rather than giving life 

by doing their job and dying

cells with cancer find a new purpose

live a bit more 

and in their new vitality 

they kill

there is no alien intruder

no external wound to blame

it is life’s order reversed

turned upside down

a civil war within

cell against brother cell

this is everything you are

and know 

inside out

on it’s head

arse over tit

the stuff you are made of 

trying to kill you

life against life