'Enemy Within' by Navita Gunter (guest blog for Cervical Cancer Awareness Month)

The Enemy Within

Beautiful Black Mother Strong black mother don’t let
With your head held the enemy within WIN!
High…
Forever fighting the good Take back you life! be a survivor
Fight just trying to get just like Daniel in the lion’s
By… den…
Being a mother of all mothers’ Dear mother the enemy within has
Here on God’s earth… a name
You open your arms to help heal and going un-detected is it’s claim
Major hurts… to fame…
Always taking care of other’s and Reach out hands to those that will
Forgetting about you… help you get treatment and answers
Being forever loving and strong, To help you defeat this enemy within
Never letting other’s know the hurt’s This enemy that we call CANCER!
That life is putting you
Through…
Being stalked by a killer that is often
Silent and hides within…
A killer that if not detected early can
Bring about your slow and pain filled
End…
Beautiful black mother
You must stop and take some time
Out for yourself…
For this killer can be stopped if you seek
Out early help…
Mother there is an enemy within you
That will grow stronger every
Day…
Unless you get tested and put road blocks
In it’s way…
Mother this killer will attack the life giving
Parts of your body first.
So as to make you incapable of feeding life’s
Milk to your babies and even giving
Birth!

 

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