Death’s diabolical dance
Tattoo This Line Challenge
Sit!
Sit your
Sorry Self down…
Stunned!
Speechless!
Shocked!
White noise weaves
words weirdly warp
dark splotches devour
colour, clarity fades.
Walls spin sickeningly
‘Show-ride’ style.
Up!
Drag
your limp
mind, body and soul up…
Up off the frigid, unforgiving floor.
Grasp the outstretched hand.
Breathe!
In out in out in out…
Slowly
Calmly
Deliberately
Breathe!
Absorb
the brutal blow
Defy Death’s diabolical dance!
Light Life’s waiting wick!
Fight! for family, for friends
Embrace every miraculous moment.
Rend
Cancer’s sullen shroud
Vanquish Cancer’s insidious cells.
Irradiate!
Exterminate!
Obliterate!
Delete Cancer’s ‘Life Sentence’
Savour Life’s sweet song upon your lips
Banish Malignancy to Ancient History
Pursue Vitality doggedly
Always give thanks… for the Good… and the Bad.
For Life!
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Author note: I envisage a tattoo ‘postscript’ to the tiny dots tattooed on the breast, guiding accurate delivery of radiation therapy for breast cancer.
Written for Tattoo this Line Challenge.
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