Dear body

Dear body

Let me love you completely

Let the restless mind that takes flight

On its many sojourns into bliss and rumination

Not abandon the earth of my being here

At times the dead weight of that painful past

All the things I left unsaid

All the screams of rebellion I had to silence

Nearly buried me

But today when you heard me dear friend

And allowed me to speak the truth

I found permission to feel how it really was deep inside

To have my body, my very being

Abandoned by robots

To rebel with an unspoken truth

That reverberated

And then almost killed me

Throwing me skyward to land fall

Breaking me open

What a mess

And how I tried

And so denied

A painful truth I didn’t want to face

Pretending and not knowing the cost of such a sacrifice

I lost years I will never be able to reclaim

And body you must have been crying and screaming

Laying your cancer down in breast tissue

So long

Waiting and wanting

To have this truth known

So now dear body

I am here I am listening

There are amends to make

And such important steps to take

To transform this terrible sacrifice

Into rebirth

Redemption