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Rated: E · Poetry · Contest Entry · #2236279
Overcoming cancer / Poetry entry to Poetry Topic of the Month
Twenty Years

The word cancer,
Slid heavily to
The very bottom
Of my heart.

Oh no! One year,
Maybe two?
The years ahead,
I'm positive will be few.

But here I am
Twenty years later.
Thank you, Father,
I quietly whisper.

gkm


12 lines
42 words
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