Cancer

There is a commercial on television right now. It asks the question What if cancer got cancer?

The idea is at once provocative and clever.

It evokes an almost childlike taunt of How would you like it if that was done to you?

Cancer is depicted as a bully whose  prey is always undeserving. And whose prey is menaced by not just by  physical pain, but emotional scars. Because even in cancer’s arrest or capital punishment, fear remains--it is the elephant in the room.

Cancer is not an equal opponent—the fight is never fair. So perhaps maybe cancer may only be eradicated by itself: dirty fighter to dirty fighter.

Because I have seen its terror and its gruesome victory. And the only thing deserving its torture is cancer itself.