Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Another Brick – v2

More than another straw
added one by one
to the camel’s back,
to the baggage she carries

The word, the diagnosis,
Cancer, more, much more;
Another brick, added to the hod
to the 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


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edited January 27, 2015
Another Brick – v2

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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