Cancer

• Klarissa Millis, Grade 8, Tyndale Christian School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

When you fight, we all fight
Arm in arm we march to find some sort of light
We scratch our heads for some sort of answer
To heal this six letter word called CANCER
There are children dying each night
They haven’t even had a chance to see the world because all they do is hold their parents tight
Hair that falls, no more plaits she was told
The money was gone and everything was sold
Bare blank walls, parents walking up and down the hall
Hoping their only daughter will live to the age of four
All we need is just one answer
To heal this six letter word called CANCER