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An Open Letter To Cancer

A beautiful disaster, dedicated to a friend and all the lives she touched in her battle.

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Dear Cancer,

You are a beautiful disaster. Your beauty stems from how you come from one deformed cell, which within a span of years, months, days, can grow. You grow into something strong. You are something that the feeble minds of human cannot fully understand. You are independent not needing anything but yourself to rely on. You are defiant and you are relentless in your effort to be the best. Though there are instances where you are beaten, more times than not you win the battles you fight. In your own way, you are beautiful.

You are similar to a toddler. You take what is not yours and you fight when they try to take it back. You make it impossible for anyone to get his or her way with out an argument because you don’t know any better. You don’t listen and choose yourself over anyone else because that’s all you know.

You are a natural disaster. You come without warning and you destroy almost everything in your path. There really is no way to prepare for you, and you come at any time for any reason. You disrupt the natural order and cause breakdown of the place you hit. You are something that cannot be predicted. You are something that can be little or great damage but we cannot know until you come. You make the world around you fear for the worst no matter where you are taking place.

You are all of these things, and you have taken something precious from multiple people. You took them before we were ready and you never gave a second thought about it. You make the world a lesser place because you take those who fill it. We blame you for stealing what is ours and we won't ever forgive you. We do not and will not find it in our hearts to attempt to understand why you work the way you do. We search for cures in hopes that, one day, goodbyes will come when we are ready and the time spent with our loved ones will not be tortured or cut short by you.

I give you the credit that you are beautiful, but the people you destroy will always be more beautiful than you. I hope I never have to speak to you again and that our paths will cross no more. The last thing I would like you to know is this… you suck.

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