Surviving Cancer -- A Poem
By Jill Grubb-Travoss, Griffin Radiation Oncology Center, Griffin, GA
About the Author
Jill Grubb-Travoss works at the Griffin Radiation Oncology Center in Griffin, GA. She is a cancer survivor of more than 20 years. She wrote the following poem and has placed it in the waiting room of her center to share with patients.
It seems like only yesterday when they told me I had cancer...
and when I asked "how long do I have" they didn't have an answer.
And it seemed to me that time stood still and the room turned upside down...
life just stopped and I stared at them and I didn't hear a sound.
And a thousand years flashed by my eyes as I thought of all I'd miss...
of the laughs and smiles of those I loved and my two year old daughter's kiss.
And I realized right then and there the time that I had wasted...
of all the things I'd never done and all the life untasted.
And I thought of all the silly things that occupied my day....
like the childish fight we had last night over bills we had to pay.
Twenty years have come and gone and I'm still at the dance....
I guess that God just changed his mind and gave me another chance.
And on that day I took a vow to let go of the past...
to live my life and love each day as if it were my last.
For only God can know these things, the day, the hour, the time...
but on this day I am alive and all the world is mine!
Jill Grubb-Travoss works at the Griffin Radiation Oncology Center in Griffin, GA. She is a cancer survivor of more than 20 years. She wrote the following poem and has placed it in the waiting room of her center to share with patients.
