For The Cancer Inside Of You Poem by Joshua Bantum

The letters hop in place,
writing themselves,
this poem to you.

They feel the heat
rising, needing to explain
my reasons
for staring.

What’s the rush……. I ask

these details you’ll probably find
useless,
standard,
old stories with different words.
But believe me when I say
these things,
If even just for a moment,
are true,
or as equal at least
to the empirical facts of nature.

Ice is cold,
the sun holds pure ambers like a lantern
held by space,
like clams cuddle
pearls
and rivers do run…

And beauty is you,
these words are
not meant to build a restrictive cell,
not suppose to hold you to
expectations,
but instead
remind you,
or reinvent
your innate glow and shine.
It’s there behind your smile,
I see life corroding
you from the outside
in,
but let me remind you,
that your strength is infinite
a rare ability to move freely,
uninhibited.

I witness through
your crumbling demeanor
the refined granite and gold underneath
your insecurities,
thus I see where you draw
life from,
and am left in awe
I don’t have a choice but to
devote time and effort,
whether it takes 1000 words
to describe what I see,
so obviously,
or simply 1 sentence.

Behind your saddening eyes
I see a spark,
and my presence
ignites the burst
that blooms your rose petal soft lips,
And now a fire stands
without struggle
inside of you,
and with this metamorphosis,
lie all the things
that allow me to breathe
all this dust and pain in
with a patient smile
on my face.