An Open Letter to Glioblastoma Multiforme:

I think it is time out of the several years of gaining knowledge of what you are, what you do, and how you do it to let you know how I feel about you. You took away someone really close to me. You took a friend, a son, a brother and an excellent student away from my community, myself, and many others that cared for him. While learning you were beginning to consume one of my best friend's brain, I discovered a hate like no other for you. Hate is a strong word, but you were stronger. I need you to know you took a life more valuable than gold, a life taken leaving so many of us behind wishing he was still here. I wish you could sit down and listen to my friend, I wish you would have taken the time to realize all he wanted to do was work, admire pretty girls, and love everyone around him whole heartedly but you didn’t. I wish you did not exist. I wish you would have left him alone. He didn’t deserve your toxic and cruel harassment. I wish there was something stronger than chemo, medications, and radiation to get you to leave one alone. My heart aches for my friend I no longer can talk to and his precious Mom, Aunt, and Sister who cared and loved for my friend with all their heart.

I wish I could sit you down and say things I wouldn’t say to my worst enemy. I wish you realized that to me, you were just a word or name of a type of cancer but to my friend you were his worst nightmare. If I could kill a word, it would be you first. But as I grow angrier with you I am realizing there is nothing I can do to something I hate. Except pray.

Because your power is much stronger than I never realized before, you are now something I pray will weaken. Something much stronger than yourself will weaken you, this I know. My prayers are not that it is inserted with a syringe. Or something taken orally. Or even something done with a scalpel and finished stitches...INSTEAD you will be weakened by My everlasting God. He knows you better than I do. He knows your full game plan. And he also knows who you are choosing to take down next. My prayer is that you will be taken down by someone who possesses a greater power than you.