added one by one
to the camel’s back
The word, the diagnosis,
Cancer, more, much more
Another brick, added to the hod
load she must carry
Every day, one on one
so young, so much hurt
pain so deep, raw still
another brick; but
she carries it too
September 5, 2008
Another Brick
written at the Agape Café coffeehouse
(one of 24 written there that night)
Wesley United Methodist Church
Concord, NH
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