World’s Nets Day…A Poem

It has taken a while to follow up since my last post, call it an emotional drain or a bit of fear to get back on the horse and put my life out there, I’m not sure myself. I’d like to thank all my readers for the kind words and thoughts and the fact you made that last post my most popular one goes to show how cancer really does affect everyone. So. I’m back in poetry class at Wellspring in Stratford and today being Net Cancer Day one of the exercises spoke to me and I read it to class and since I told I should share it on my blog it seems the perfect way to get the blog rolling again. And yes to all my friends who knew me from years back you heard it right, Poetry class…

Today is world NETS day, it still brings a lump into my throat. How did I get here? Why me? I don’t understand. Four years ago my life was flipped upside down. One mass, a tumour, but it has unfortunately metastases all around. Just like the caterpillar, it represents prior self. The butterfly emerged and was given life, hearing those words “You have cancer” Just like the butterfly I see the world differently now. All the fears I felt before now slowly fade as I long to push forward every new day. Between medicine and mindset, hope is to keep my Cancer firmly at bay.

Steve Medhurst

I still plan on finishing up my Algonquin fall trip with one more entry, so watch for that soon. In the meantime thanks for reading I love you all. I finished up my video of that fall trip and will leave the link to it here at the bottom of the post. Thanks everybody!!!