Fighting for Our Lives by Heather Choate

Author:Heather Choate [Choate, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633536302
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2017-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Beautiful,

That word does not mean what it did a week ago,

Beautiful.

The curves have morphed, body deformed.

Once smooth skin, soft and pure,

Now running in jagged lines of red.

The curls of last year fallen to the floor and swept away.

Face ashen, lacking the summer sun’s kiss.

No clothing fits.

All the hats itch my head.

I throw my Sunday dresses on the floor

Because they fit a person I’m not anymore.

Smiles and golden hair glare at me from the pictures on the walls of our home,

The fairytale princess, but the lilies of our wedding day have long since faded,

And they’re thrown away.

And he tells me I’m beautiful.

Beautiful.

And it makes me think, through the tears that cloud my eyes,

That word means more now than ever before.

It’s changed.

Just like me.

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