Is it possible to miss your cancer?
Removed with clean edges
Excision
Scars healed and tissues taken away
Repackaged and sealed in containers
Embalming
Are you just phantom pain?
Reminders of something barely alive, dwindling life support
Existential
Minding my own business and you
Reach back into my brain and tap the glass
Exhibit A
Watch the creature squirm in
Response to uncomfortable stimuli
Examined
Is this all that's left?
Reviewing the scars and the
Edges left by the scalpel
I am more than the bloodletting you prescribed
Resetting my bones
Engage the muscles
Grief at the loss but
Relief on the
Exhale
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This would be such a strange feeling.
this is exactly how my mom felt after her mastectomy. you've put her feeling into the words she couldn't find.