The Body Gives — O at the Edges

This is a poem, and WordPress seems to mess up the formatting, but it is a beautiful piece.

The Body Gives Sometimes the body gives too much. A tendon frays, the heart mumbles and no one sees the damaged parts. Ignoring pain, we continue climbing ladders, sandpaper breath rasping the morning light. Little bits of us crumble all the time, yet we stumble on, pretending. Then the body kills us with its […]

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