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September 5, 2020
Filed Under: Cancer Reflections, Grief Writings, Healing, Reflections on Love
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Standing

We always say I will be the one who will be standing when she dies.

There are so many assumptions in that statement:

  1. She will die.
  2. She will die before I do.
  3. I will be able to stand.

We think we know the path, the plan

Yet there have already been so many silences when we expected sound

So many sunny days during a torrential storm.

Then, of course, great pandemics,

Bringing a box of uncertainties.

How many pandemics does it take to remember we don’t know anything about standing?

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  1. venusmaher says

    September 6, 2020 at 8:23 am

    Well said. Shaking loose the assumptions. Arriving in the uncertain now.

    Reply
  2. Diana says

    September 7, 2020 at 12:05 am

    Thought provoking.

    Reply

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