when you live with cancer
you learn things
cancer is on a kamikaze mission
aimed at its own destruction
and yours
more people have it
than you ever imagined
cancer can open a door
to the here and now
if you let it
a guide to places
and modes of being
you should have been looking for all along
perhaps that is why
when we cancer people
pass in the hospital corridors
we exchange that secret knowing smile
