He’s just a bug on my lapel

Cancer choked her lungs
like a garden rose swallowed up in bindweeds
but still, she had-the-beating of velvet wings
and, sang lives-chorus between each coughing wheeze
cause she loved you more than life itself too
yes, cancer slowly took over her body.

But it couldn't hold her back or still,
cause a thunderbolt it roars
cause lightning flashes, glimmers, least until
Deaths cowl shows her thin and stricken
skin and bone, but even now and then
there'll be some good morrow, a moment

you thought nothing-can-take her away now, amen
all your faith restored once again.
Oh, cancer thinks he's made a friend
he's a Pied Piper leading her to his hellish den
but he's just a bug on her lapel
her coat a little sub-cell she'll repel.

Cancer is like a subatomic particle embedded in her lungs
grew like a hailstorm,
but she's the lightning-
the thunder in her, own coughing wheezes!
it's her who's the current in the breeze
charged with, bringing, cancer to his knees.

~or~
Cancer choked her lungs
Like a garden swallowed up in bindweeds
But she still had the beating of her wings
Sang lives chorus between each coughing wheeze.

Yes, cancer took over her body,
But it couldn't hold her still
Cause a thunderbolt roars
And lightning flashes, least until.

Death leaves her thin and stricken.
Skin and bone, but even then
There'll be some good morrow, like wheat:
To make her cornmeal—amen!

Oh, cancer thinks he's made a friend
He's a pied piper leading her to his den in hell
But he's just a bug on her lapel
Her coat a little sub-cell she'll - repel.

Cancer filled her lungs
Like a hailstorm, but she's the lightning
The thunder in her, own coughing wheezes
It's her who's the current in the breeze
Charged with, bringing, cancer to his knees.