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Tag Archives: death
Cancer
There are times when new growth is a bad thing. When that dark shadow creeps into your life, touching healthy cells with its withering hand, defying the surgeon’s careful knife as it gains momentum and saps your strength, the possibility … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, cancer, daily poems, death, poetry by request, sonnet
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Resistance
If there is a principle in my life that stands behind any visible act or serves to motivate in times of strife, it is this very simple and small fact: I have been given many things to keep, some of … Continue reading
Death and Kindness
… so now, after seven years of bad luck – after that sudden crippling twist of fate, when all the shit he threw just turned to muck, just when you thought things weren’t going so great in a second or … Continue reading