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
