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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.
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.
