Malignant

First a bleeding A slow trickle Then an ache A mass Swelling and spreading In the body Tiny warfares The cells could not contain She is tired Mom whispers Her mother grew weary too You could only take so much Weight on a broken crutch The reach of a poison's touch Wounds intertwined Endless evils Metastasized across The Atlantic Parasitic Exhausting every acre Fatal sickness Ancestors I can't name Call out through time Bruised histories and bodies For eons and eons To come You could only take so much Weight on a broken crutch The reach of a poison's touch Wounds intertwined Violent sun Reflects off new buildings Onto my cheek Old faces Leaving a city They built Mom winces As we watch The cancer spread