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Pink April
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I wrote this after having a partial mastectomy in April. I felt it necessary for me to overcome my own internal embarassment at talking about it. My cancer was too small to be detected by tough, but if my clinic hadn't called and reminded me that it had been over a year since my last mammogram, it wouldn't have been caught.

So I shared this through the Beatrice Daily Sun Poet's Quill and Helium.com. Now I bring it here and hope it will inspire women to take care of what they have.

 

Pink April
 
Today I’ll buy a pink brazier
wear under sheer white top.
Not any day would be so brash
to celebrate my breasts. 
But now as April proves
my cup can yet be full.
I’ve need for outward sign
of what the doctor’s left.
 
Today I’ll buy pink ribbons
to turn about in bows
and join them pinned
as million others will
to celebrate woman’s gift.
The sweet milk suckled
from our nipples
by tender newborn mouth
cleave two mounds of flesh
for proud bellies filled

 
Today I’ll touch unashamed
the curve upon my chest. 
What God endowed be as it is
no need to hide from me.
If it be gone to save my life
in time, as time unfolds,
I’ll have memory of
the soft bare flesh
of my womanhood.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on December 5, 2008
Oh dear one what inner strength you possess. I know a few who have also undergone this surgery and the path back to normalcy has been a long uneasy road. God bless you always....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by 000 000 (Reader)
Reviewed on December 5, 2008
You are a very brave and wondrous person to share and write such a beautiful poem of tragedy. No one can take away a beautiful and kind spirit!
CarolHawks


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