Viral

“We've done it.”

It was the statement issued by the researcher,

The cure had been found,

Cancer eradicated,

Forever,

Testing was still months away,

Yet the promise was there,

The smile crossed his face,

Finally people could live in peace,

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Months passed,

And the test were carried on,

First in rats,

Then in people,

Results were more then promising,

People showed that it could be done,

And the cure had been found,

The doctors involved,

found themselves on the end of a very nice ovation,

As the world had found it's savior,

From a killer,

That had claimed so many,

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Years passed,

And soon the virus that cured Cancer,

Became a vaccine,

Everyone was injected with it at birth,

And within 3 decades the disease seemed,

To be completely gone,

The years ticked,

And the first generation,

Of birth vaccines,

Found themselves getting older,

And older,

And soon,

The first one falls,

And finds themselves,

At the hospital,

The doctors are stunned,

When they discover,

That our fallen,

Is overcome with some kind of new,

Disease,

This one,

Unlike anything they had ever seen,

It spread quickly,

Within 3 days of monitoring,

Were dead,

Doctors were dumbfounded,

Then almost like a switch,

More,

Within the first week 2,000 were confirmed dead,

Within a month 15,000

The first year saw 75,000 people die,

Doctors,

The one's lucky enough to not be dead,

Start trying to study it,

Only to discover that they are fighting a war against themselves,

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A decade has passed,

Since the outbreak,

And the death toll has surpassed 100 Million,

Over a third of the population,

Brought to it's knees,

By they're own miscalculations,

The remaining,

Have fallen into a state of unrest,

A state of unease,

The government,

Gone,

The streets,

Falling into Civil War,

The Country sees itself,

On the Brink of extinction,

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Another 2 decades rush by,

Or for others,

It slowly crawls,

As the agony tears them apart from the inside,

They lose they're wits,

Their brains,

Their faces,

It all seems to melt away,

By the end,

Another 1 and a half Million,

Dead,

Thousands left in the streets,

And decaying,

The entire country in chaos,

Other countries,

Didn't even care enough to,

Attempt to take over,

What was left,

Was under a half million people,

Who were destined to be dead,

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2 years later,

The population ticked down,

To 150,000

And the last 10 doctors,

Had finally learned,

What was taking out people,

A thousand at a time,

The cure to cancer,

From nearly 50 years ago,

Was discovered as the cause,

They worked fast,

And fought,

And only hours after the build was finished,

The last doctor laid on his death bed,

His last statement,

“Save the Rest of Us.”

As he flatlines,

They rush out the vaccine,

The records show,

That when it was all said and done,

That only 20,000

People Remained,

In the entire country,

The graves were so large,

They didn't even get marked,

History tells us a lot of stories,

But this one seemed,

To tell us,

That sometimes,

The things that could be too good,

To be true,

More then Likely are,  

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