Denial Poem by Aparna Chatterjee

Don't live
In denial,
It's a
Death knell.

Once
Cancer
Catches you,
Death soon
Devours you.




(I've lost quite a few of my favourite people to cancer. They endured the harsh treatments and repulsive side-effects of all sorts of medical interventions including painful and invasive surgeries to cure their cancer. It did give them some extra time on this earth, prolonging their life of suffering as their quality of life was severely compromised. But they all finally succumbed to cancer.)