Cat Piss

My dad is like
our beloved lime tree
that died last year

ready to do wonderful things
it had always planned to do
was meant to do
build things -
limes or furniture -
does the output really matter?

a flower for the first time
one year earlier

a completed children's story
submitted to publishers

none of it matters when
you're dead
unless someone else
carries on

i guess cat piss isn't
the best analogy for
cancer
but then again
maybe it is