Summary Of The Poem It Lures

“It Lures” by Everest is a poem talking about her father and the cancer that is within him. Everest finds a hard time in understanding why this would happen to someone she loves dearly, and why there is no cure for it to go away forever. She wonders why her father won’t be in charge and kick cancer out the door, but she doesn’t see the difficult time he has to go through. In “It Lures”, Everest uses personification, metaphor, and idiom to portray that sometimes the strongest and most pure people have to endure the worst pain in life. In “It Lures”, Everest personifies the world to being cruel, to show that the world isn’t cruel, but the things inside the world. In “It Lures” the author begins the poem with the question, “Why” (1). In the