After my LC facebook buddy, Randy, posted this poem I knew I had to share. This poem was originally written by a lung cancer community support member, Dean Carl. Randy, who lost his wife to lung cancer, says when Dean Carol was diagnosed he, "decided not to have treatment but to enjoy life the way he wanted to live it."

Thank you Randy for posting this!

Cancer!
Oh, how we fear that word!

I say to you, "I have cancer"
And I watch you,
refuse to hear.

I say to you, "I have cancer"
And I watch you,
bury me with your eyes.

Yes, I have CANCER.
Please,
Please hear the word.
But do not lay me in my grave,
At least,
Not just yet.

Oh, I know this disease
Will someday take my life.
The chances of that are,
Shall we say,
Rather high.

Yes, I know that which will take me,
From this world.

But not today!

But then again,
That's all I've ever had.
Today.

And to tell the truth,
(which I've been known to do at times)
That's all any of us ever have.
Today.

So today, I think,
I'll get up early,
And watch the sun set fire to the sky.

Today, I think,
I'll tell my wife,
"I love you", at least a hundred times.

Today, I think,
I'll find a way to laugh so hard,
I'll give myself a stomach ache.

Today, I think,
I'll go to the cliffs above the ocean
And ask old man Ocean what he knows that I don't.

Today, I think,
I'll climb down into the abyss,
And spit in the Devil's eye.

Today I'll do so many wonderful things.
And those I don't get done today.
I'll do tomorrow when tomorrow becomes today.

Yes, I have cancer
Yes, I will die from it someday.
But not today.

Not today.