War

Don't call it a fight when you know it's a war...

Heroes, warriors

Fighters in the field

But not with guns

Or swords

They are fighting

Themselves

A battle that bravery

Cannot win

And strength cannot overcome

It is a battle

I have seen too many times

Yet, it happens

Again

Again

And again

And those who can end this war

Who have the power

To join and fight

Have settled

For shutting their doors

Closing their hearts

As the innocent fall

They don't give out their weapons

Or make known their solidarity

Instead they sit

High on a hill

Behind closed white doors

While those in white-washed rooms

End their war

With a steady beep

Reminding us one more time

That the battle was lost

And the war rages on.

(It makes me angry. So angry. I didn't know Sam, but by this point, many who didn't know him have become painfully aware of his life... and his death.

Cancer is a battle... a WAR we can win if only those with the power to make a difference will finally get off their lazy, greedy, heartless behinds and DO something about it.

How can children dying not be a wake up call? The drums of war have been sounded... and some people just refuse to hear them...)

In memory of Sam... http://supermansamuel.blogspot.com/)