Death took me by the hand
as she often does
told me she wanted to take me
to a place
I had never been
But as fate would have it
she spotted a food truck
by the side of the road
and muttered to herself
” I love me some soul food.”
and off she went
I took the opportunity
to escape her shadow
and headed
to the sacred place
to see the pharaoh shaman
He put me through the rituals
Afterwards
I rang the bell
like some holocaust Quasimodo…
I was cancer free
and I owed it all
to my Esmeralda
and yeah I cried too.
