Monday, June 28, 2010

Lifting Weights

What doesn't kill us now, will eventually.

Birthday cards and Mother's Day cards

feel ten pounds heavier when she's sick,

twenty when she's no longer around to keep them.

Her signature stamped on each one,

blares like neon gas

when her hands no longer sign them.

Prying open each door will leave us

with dead arms and blind eyes.

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