Positive Cancer

I thought that I should take the time to post a poem that I found inspirational, but a few words first. This poem is not about sadness, or loss, or grief, at least not to me. I’m not sure what the author had in mind but I believe this poem is simply saying that we have been given lives and we need to remember that at any moment our lives can change, and in the end we owe ourselves, our family and our friends to continue to fight for the sheer purpose of life itself. Positive Cancer, that’s what this means to me and fighting for your life, and not taking it for granted but rather, taking it for the privilege it most surely is.

In Retrospect to an Escape from Death by Hugh Mooney:

“Had I died, what would the world have gained,
Or lost?
For better men than I have gone in their going
Immeasurably progressed the future
But had I been chosen, would that passing
Have left its filial endowment to posterity?
For here, in escrow as it were, I realize
The Earth needs me not to move,
Yet I depend upon my fellow man-
So, in retrospect, I am myself in debt
To society for sustenation-
And owe the world a living.”