Immortal Soul

Cancer

Has silently corrupted

My tissues

My flesh

It spread invisibly

Multiplying

Floating

Depositing

Growing

Displacing

To stop it

I must break myself

Because of cancer

I sacrifice

My beauty

My work

My goals

My strength

My interaction with the outside world

My skin changes

My body hurts

My stomach aches

My head pounds

My heart races

My limbs tremble and shake

I am hardly myself

Cancer tries to steal even more from me

My courage

And fortitude

My energy

And spark

But it doesn’t

Because I’ve learned

There is a part of me

A part that, if I can stay true, will forever remain

Untouched

Unmarred

By cancer

My soul

My soul cannot be tarnished

Cancer may think it’s stronger, final

But, cancer

Can never

Will never

Conquer 

Because my soul is untouchable

My soul is immune to illness

Injury to my soul is impermanent

My soul is immortal

It only learns and grows

Unstoppable

Clear in its purpose

Marked and changed perhaps

But

Always whole

My untouchable soul

Cancer is not as brutal as it appears to be 

For it cannot alter

It cannot ever merit a touch

Compared 

It is tiny

Inconsequential

Nothing

Compared to my impenetrable soul