Sunday, 31 January 2021

Chemo

 Life and the opposite of life.

A contradiction

storming the citadel of the heart’s stream.

A system designed to haul us

out beyond the limits

where our next breath

quivers on a high wire

taut above black waters.

Salvation in a drip bag.

A snail’s pace ahead,

pushing back the dread hand.

Love-punch to the solar plexus.

Clenched fists at the temples;

kiss like thunder -

right between the eyes.

Drag me down and save me.

Knock me down and soothe me.

Waltz me to the edge of death.

Pull me from the precipice.




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