Create hope . Here is what one patient wrote in response to my poem and the subsequent discussion. But I have hope that I will Beat it. They also Hope their protocol will be successful. Without hope everything Else seems irrelevant.
Life is joy, sadness sorrow.
Happy thoughts get us through Each day. A whisper hope comforts and sustains. It is a moving experience when they discover another path to their inner selves. They see that they are developing mental strength in the fight for their lives, their dignity . . . Since they are encouraged to write in any form they choose, some will write in prose to begin with, and that is fine.