Cancer

Anonymous

I like winter.


“Look how out of breath they are.” He said.

“So thin and empty.” She said,

“I can’t make them fit.” I said.

“I don’t like you… Or you… Or you.” I said.


Little cells ran

From lines and chemicals and electric beams.


I died in April

and left this room at last

now filled with memories belonging to someone

who’s not me anymore

Stone.

This poem is about a boy's childhood experience of parental divorce. The cancer cells in this poem represents emotions itself. In the second stanza, it is referred to by "he" and "she" representing parents describing their bond as thinning. The 5th line is a children's most raw form of eventual unleashed outrage towards no specific target, only feeling like being targeted by everyone. In the next line, cancer cells ran, representing the numbness after the sudden rush of anger. The emotions ran physically from chemicals (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) and electric beams (action potential) after the logical procession of the brain. The final stanza has no breaks, just like the suffocating numbness described literally - the guilt of "I should be feeling sad" and a foreign body that doesn't align with the soul inhabited within it, as if he has died. This feeling of not fitting in is also portrayed in two layers through the corresponding sentences "I like winter" and "I died in April", of how his death does not align with his preference as well as how he died in April which is in spring, commonly perceived as a time period of growth and renovation. The final word "stone" can be interpreted in multiple ways. Firstly, it is a direct correspond to the last sentence, that the person in the room is now stone, someone who's cold, hard with no emotion or sympathy. Secondly, it also refers to a gravestone, a gravestone towards the boy's parents' love and himself, or realistically his emotions. In conclusion, this is a poem that uses mainly prose and childish language to portray a children's emotions after knowing that his parents are getting divorced, using cancer cells as a metaphorical expression.

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