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Stage IVBrain. / Cancer. / No... You sat on the stairs

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Feb 7, 2019

Before My 30'sLosing my mom before my 30's taught me a lot about life. It's short. Short in the "she was in remission for eight years, there's no way it could come back" short. Because it did. Come back. / It showed me what it feels like when the air is physically ****** out of the room - the feeling of a soul leaving the body. And that even the most private of people may still want their family surrounding them during their last breaths. It taught me how to administer the correct amount of morphine, consol a father who is inconsolable and pick the "perfect" urn. I learned there is a part of myself I will never get back because I was a part of her and she a part of me. / I will never just 'get over this.'

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Jan 29, 2019

final breathYour hand in mine / Looked so small, / Fragile

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Jun 18, 2018

The PauseI'm sorry, / When the silence was too loud / Was it my fault

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Apr 15, 2018

damageI dream of her. / I shouldn't. / but my subconscious has this thing -

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Apr 7, 2017

I Wish I CouldStop time. / I would pick the exact time you decided to stay. / And then, we would be able to stay just like that

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Jun 15, 2015

xYou were never good at cleaning up my messes. / You would throw punches, and talk trash / Destroy whatever came into your line of sight,

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Jun 15, 2015

happinesshappiness, / tugging at me like a nagging child / one who won't listen when I say,

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Feb 28, 2015

impressionsMorning sunshine, / Your button nose and warm flesh. / Handprints left on white sheets,

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Feb 17, 2015

california dreamin'Misplaced, my heart / I am a body, my face / My hands, But

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Feb 17, 2015

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