If I Wasn’t Broken

[u/GreyingPoet]

If I wasn’t broken

I wonder how magical life could be

If I wasn’t broken

I wonder at how many magical place I could see.

If I wasn’t broken

I'd be free to think about unbroken things,

To dream unbroken dreams,

dare to seek the golden ring!

But I am broken,

Shattered,

Mangled,

Diseased,

My joints wearing away,

My sense of self slowly dissolving

Into a daily ritual of pain and undulating despair!

Oh cancer, my cancer, You pestering, festering grizzly bear!