Quiet and Kindness
(Chemotherapy Cycle 2, No. 2)
Quiet and Kindness
Join up here.
For most,
the only unkindness
Is the treatment.
It can do things to you
While it does its work.
Welcome to side-effects world.
All else, though,
Is quiet and kindness,
When the side effects aren't.
But so it goes here,
Where there are
No straight treatment roads,
Not one, I venture.
Trial, error, trial again,
Stop, start, stop, start again -
And repeat.
Here the quiet,
Wrapped in kindness,
Is a warm and welcomed blanket
Of comfort and hope.
Like a Foxford throw,
Genuine.
- CS Lathrop
08/03/2025