Unvarnished Words 2012-13

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Asthma: The Unsolicited Attack by Crystal Prawl different triggers—the same results trauma: emotional, physical i knock softly on Death’s forbidden door, watching the handle turn timid, fearful, panicked my body collapsing, insides burning, pulse racing, breath failing constricted, immobile, Alone a soft voice invites me back, promising things to be broken tears, anguish, pained a half-hearted prayer that it would disappear; that i could be free; that it would End releasing, freeing, Breathing staying another day to fight and try to live again

Non Stop by Jose Roman

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