…to die of cancer<\/p>\n
32 months
\nAnd there is no way
\nto die of cancer when
\nyour mother asks you to wait
\nuntil she dies<\/p>\n
There is also no way
\nfor both mother and son to
\nsimultaneously
\ndie of cancer<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Yet you showed me your way
\n32 months
\nand how grateful I am
\nthat you did<\/p>\n
That you could make dying
\nlook like living. I
\nalmost forgot we were
\nsaying goodbye, despite
\nhow often I ended up
\nsaying hello to you
\nAgain
\nAt your hospital bed<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That you gave me the chance
\n32 months
\nto accompany you
\nThat you made it easier
\nfor me, despite your own
\npain. Kept reminding me
\nthat we were doing
\nour best, despite
\nall the setbacks<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Thank you. For
\n32 months
\nthanking us so often<\/p>\n
Dying people do not
\nthank their surgeons
\noften<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
There is no way
\nto ask a dying man about
\nhis dying mother. Is it
\ncruel
\nto hope you didn’t break your promise
\n32 months
\nto her? To hope you
\ndidn’t die
\nwith such a burden?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And there is still no way
\nto say goodbye
\nto a very
\nfamiliar stranger.\u00a0 But<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
fighter, fighter, beautiful-
\nsouled, ever-
\nsmiling, ever-
\ngrateful soldier, you
\n32 months<\/p>\n
are scarred on your
\nsurgeons’ hearts<\/p>\n
RIP FK<\/p>\n
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