Cancer Is A B*tch

I'll stand here and listen
Just a little while
To the world waking up
With a heartbroken smile

It's not that you left me
You had no choice
I've lost you now
That it stole your voice

Imagine planning it all
Your final sendoff
While you waited for angels
To bear you aloft

Imagine being young
And told you must die
That one word... cancer
You ask yourself why

Why someone so young?
So kind and true?
Out of all the people on this earth
Why did it have to be you?

When that phone call came
And the tears started flowing
You became more than an angel
You were the one glowing

We all came with respect
For the sweetest boy I knew
At your special request
In purples and blues

I never heard you complain
Had never seen you cry
You must have locked it all away
Bottled it up inside

I've never seen bravery
Or strength like you had
Before or after you'd gone
But I'm glad

That your future is clear now
Pain free and sweet
I'll miss you a long while
Until one day we'll meet.

I.Sparrow 13/5/12