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Chemotherapy

there is a crack in everything;

the burden of ballast, walking

barefoot on the surface of the sun;

waking up in that dark immortal

furnace, outside your locked heart,

to step through the copper door

again and again,

the only way out is through...

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56 / M / The Exclusion Zone

Published: Jan 8
LinesWords: 844

Tags: #analogy #metaphor #cancer #treatment #health #life #death

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