Year 1:
It’s leukemia.
Chemo, arsenic, blood work.
This is my life now.
Year 2:
Doc said it. It’s gone!
I beat what should have killed me.
I can live my life.
Year 3:
It lingers inside.
Thoughts that it might reappear
Stronger and vengeful.
Year 4:
It didn’t come back.
It won’t. Because it knows me.
I will win again.
Year 5:
It’s Leukemia.
Acute, promyelocytic
but it didn’t win.
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Author:
M.E.M. (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This poem came about from a prompt. "Write a series of five haikus that span five years of time following an important event." The event is my diagnosis with Leukemia and beating it. I spread out the times when I would write them to add to the different "years" vibe. Created: 4/5/23, 4/17/23, 6/8/23 Comments are welcome.
- Category: Haiku
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