Pride

Swollen lymph nodes

Swollen was her pride

Swollen, it screwed me over

It hurt to eat

It hurt to swallow

It hurt to talk

They were big 

They were huge

They were a warning sign

Like a red light telling you to stop

Like brain storming is for you to think

Like when something is wrong you go to the doctor

No, she said she was a nurse

No, because it was nothing

No, it was from me cheating on my diet

She was wrong

She said it was nothing

She screwed me over

A couple months later I was diagnosed

ALL

A kind of cancer

I never really blamed her

I didn't think it was her fault 

I have to say now though

It was her fault for me being so sick

I had to be in the ICU for them to figure it out

I had cancer instead of pneumonia

If she had thrown away her pride

If she had taken me to the doctor like a normal person

If she had, the fight would've been a whole lot easier

But she didn't