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Dr. Maya Angelou said that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of oneself.  As a patient living with/dying from system scleroderma, my daily dose of pain and agony is at best heartbreaking; at its worst, unspeakable.  

Mnikesa has no need for more pain.  

Mnikesa will will tell her story.

This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.

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April 23, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

dying girl, 

you are not a match.

you get more than one strike

before you are out--

extinguished

discarded

 

you get a future.

for some reason,

today, 

dearly beloved, 

it is the color of lilac

or lavender

or wine

 

today take flight, my love. 

among the angels, the doves,

who only do their crying

if a person they mourn

did some living before dying.  

 

Tags Rest in Purple, Terminal Illness, The Purple One, 30 Day Poetry Challenge, Living with disease
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