Malignant Video (MV)

First a bleeding
A slow trickle
Then an ache

A mass
Swelling and spreading
In the body

Tiny warfares
The cells could not contain
She is tired

Mom whispers
Her mother grew weary too

You could only take so much
Weight on a broken crutch
The reach of a poison's touch
Wounds intertwined

Endless evils
Metastasized across
The Atlantic

Parasitic
Exhausting every acre

Fatal sickness
Ancestors I can't name
Call out through time

Bruised histories and bodies
For eons and eons
To come

You could only take so much
Weight on a broken crutch
The reach of a poison's touch
Wounds intertwined

Violent sun
Reflects off new buildings
Onto my cheek

Old faces
Leaving a city
They built

Mom winces
As we watch
The cancer spread