Twenty three - DjLilly (reading rainbow books .txt) 📗

Twenty three

She is only 23, and now she wonders ..
how could her body betray her?
She wants to dance, she wants to sing,
she wants to Live.


She faces the mirror of her soul and
contemplates this news.
What will happen to this girl with cancer in her breast?
Will her breast be taken from her; will she ever nourish a baby with her own mother’s milk, or hold her spouse against her chest?


She wants to dance, she wants to sing,
she wants to Live


Twenty three


She watches all the women come and go, most are older
They tuck their colorful scarves over their ears
Or tug their wigs into place.
She is determined to wear her new signature look of beauty with passionate pride.
She caresses her shiny bald head and remembers
to place her bright bold smile across her face.


She dresses in her sequined prom gown for chemo and
wears shimmering fake eyelashes to shroud her tears.
She reaches deep within her soul to find the strength
to fight this overwhelming mountain of cancer fears.


She uses humor to refocus her wandering mind and
allows her girl friends to paint her toenails purple.
She wishes for rainbow moments and fairy tale days
and reaches out with fingers of hope to grasp a cure.

She is only 23
She wants to dance, she wants to sing,
she wants to Live


DjLilly

Publication Date: 02-19-2010

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