Cancer Ward Poem by Valsa George

Cancer Ward

Rating: 4.8


Life, here hangs on a filmy thread of hope
Unskilled acrobats, making tight rope walks
With the deep chasm gaping below
Some too fatigued to feel the stress,
Empty beds bearing
the scars of lost battles,
Shaded rooms brooding in the gloom,
Pervading silence speaking mutely
of burnt hopes and dreams,
the morbid stillness occasionally broken by
stifled groans and whimpers.

In a corner room, he lay,
a dead heap upon the bed,
with no one to keep vigil,
Loneliness, his only companion!
Crowds of fans queued up once
to have just a glimpse of him!
Now suddenly grown older
with all energy vanquished,
he stares into the claws of Death.
His frail emaciated body,
rejecting the drops of toxic drugs,
The dried up neurons refusing
to send signals to the brain,
Eye balls sinking deep,
Cheek bones sticking out,
Tentacles of cancer tightening hold
on every lobe of his lungs,
he lay- on his bed,
a dead log of wood tossed by the currents

Moving in and out of consciousness
He finally slipped into the snares of Death.

The vanquished soldier exited out,
Sans songs, sans fanfare!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valerie Dohren 22 October 2012

Very sad Valsa, very sad.

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Rajkamal P.j 23 October 2012

a good picture of a sorry state of affairs..well penned..a new angle of writing..keep it up

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Unwritten Soul 26 October 2012

Very sad, a bit dark but it is true....cancer is better to be a zodiak than an illness...never mind for those who fight for life, dont surrender till we show that we own our life, stay with Him! _Soul

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Om Chawla 28 October 2012

Very touching. Agony beyond words and yet you have described it so very effectively Can I seek your views on my poem 'Cry of a soul'.

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So touching that I recollected a few more faces sharpened with intense pain beyond any description. The survivors are fortunate enough.In the dark chambers of loneliness and hopelessness, can we ever see the torch bearers of medical science to show a way out? A poem that matters a lot to us.

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Me Poet Yeps Poet 19 February 2020

A Cancer Patients Last Wish DO READ ALIVE INCIDENCE I OBSERVED UR IS GREAT

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Edward Kofi Louis 29 January 2017

Burnt hopes and dreams. Sad note. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Akhtar Jawad 09 December 2016

A wonderful poem, inspiring me to write a poem on CCU where I reminded a few days after a heart attack.

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Ovi Odiete 28 September 2015

This is so painful.... what a tragedy.

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 29 September 2014

Full of emotions very poignantly and successfully put down to arouse a heart-felt feeling for the suffering souls Valsa.......a very phenomenal composition......10/10

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