"Do you promise, do you promise" she said when she first found out, as I comforted her holding in my tears and promising her she wouldn't die. I explained that she was young and that the cancer must have been caught early. As time passed, she got worse and worse, hope faded and dreams disappeared. The only way I could think, to honour the promise I had made was to immortalise her in my poetry.
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"Do you promise, do you promise" she said when she first found out, as I comforted her holding in my tears and promising her she wouldn't die. I explained that she was young and that the cancer must have been caught early. As time passed, she got worse and worse, hope faded and dreams disappeared. The only way I could think, to honour the promise I had made was to immortalise her in my poetry.
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