I watched cancer take four lives.
It's been six years since the first,
but I've watched four people die.
Watching them fade as I sit on standby.
First goes their hair, and then comes the pain.
When you stand by their side nothing gives, but life only takes.
They leave weights in my mind, which drag down my grades.
But my GPA is a number, so feelings aren't calculated.
Check my grades online but seeing this grief, my sullen heart is aclimated.
Four lives, four years of highschool strung up on depression.
Deep in my mind I'll find my recession.
I used to be scared but now I understand.
I'm no longer a kid because life dealt a dirty hand.
In this peace of my mind I realise,
There's noone other than me, who I despise.
So I won't sink in from these feelings, I'll only rise.
I won't ruin their memories, I will survive.