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Metastasized (Revised, Repost)
by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner → (All Poetry by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner)
  
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Terror, unchecked, can metastasize like undiagnosed cancer.

We're sorry, but biopsy on
the lump we excised is
MALIGNANT.  It is in an
advanced stage, meaning it
has spread beyond its point of origin...

METASTASIZED.

Treatment options include
using high-powered doses
of medicine, which can prove
lethal, or radical surgery.  The
cure can be worse than the disease...

METASTASIZED.

We must be more aggressive
than the malignancy, if there
is to be any hope for survival.
We don't mean to rush you, but
we need a decision as soon as possible.

METASTASIZED.

Terror is like cancer.  Undiagnosed,
untreated, it multiplies rapidly, ravaging
everything in its path, ultimately destroying
the human body.

What can we, as brothers and sisters, do to
stop the hate that breeds terrorism like
unchecked cancer?  What can we do to find
a cure to end the plague of hatred, without
resulting in all out war?

Is war the answer?  Is using high powered,
lethal weaponry and surgical strikes condusive
to the patient's well being?  Is the cure really
worse than the disease?  Will the patient survive?
Will WE survive?


I pray for peace, for all my brothers and sisters,
no matter their race, their culture, their belief;
I pray for peace, because despite differences, we
are all the human race.  I pray for peace...and my
God...let it begin with me.

(C) Karla Dorman, 2002/revised 2003


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Reviewed by Jaclynn Huntington (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
An awsome write, my friend!

~Jackie~

Reviewed on October 12, 2003
Vivid, heartwrenching write; love the anology you used in this write! Brilliant work, Karla; very well done! (((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :( >tears < *NEVER FORGET!*

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
Excellent analogy Karla! this is a top class poem and a winner in my book! You did an expert job of writing with this one!I agree with your prayer for peace, if the world would repent and pray there would be peace! God said so, but people are jaded with the mundane world believing nothing can change and so nothing does.

Reviewed by Transcendental Poet (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
I like your concept of terror as being compared to Cancer and metastasis..But there is a causal link missing which is site--as to where the tumors are located..I remembered a story of a heart sugery
where the surgeon replaced the left bicuspid valve whereas he was supposed to operate on the right one...similar operations on eye, brain..and even Kidneys have been reported..

I would argue that there can be a big margin of error about the jugdement and prognosis!

Justin D'Souza

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
beautiful, harmonious prayer...

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
Totaly Awesome sweet pea...
Love it
Lady peg

Reviewed by Charles Mann (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO READ YOUR WONDERFUL WORDS MY FRIEND,GREAT WRITE.
CHARLIE

Reviewed by Taylor Trenton (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2003
This is a super write.
Smiles
Taylor

Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Fantastic and absolute. Terror is like a cancer...it does grow. And an all out strike will sometimes kill the patient and not the cancer...I agree ~Peace Is The Answer~
Great write and a powerful statement.
Allen

Reviewed on October 11, 2003
This one hit hard, a friend of a friends and mine has discovered a lump in her breast and is going to get it checked, the fear alone is enough to swallow her up!
God Bless
~Michelle~

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
This was so powerful Karla!!

Love Tinka


Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Prayer is definitely the only answer!!!

God bless,
Tim

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Many of us can do nothing but pray......
Thanks for sharing karla...
Your friend........Ron

Reviewed on October 11, 2003
They say that LOVE is powerful; but I feel that HATE is more so.

Sometimes people just hate another for no reasons at all. No one wants to be on the receiving line of the hatred. It is very destructive.

Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu :o)

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Karla this is so powerful...hate is so destructive...and hard to fight against...unless we fight it with love....great write...floria

Reviewed by Rebekah Rosie Lang
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
You put it into words with excellence! Job well done! Here Here!
Brava!

Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Ah Karla, This was so powerful, I pray you find it,

Reindeer

Reviewed by Jill Eisnaugle
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Very explosive and vivid write, Karla and yet, so true. Let freedom ring!
(((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
Jill :)

Reviewed by Robert Blackwell (Reader)
Reviewed on October 11, 2003
Very vivid write, my friend. {{{{{{{{{{{{{hug}}}}}}}}}}}}}}


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