Looking to the future
I wonder if pain will continue
throughout the next thirty years.
I wonder if doctors
will proliferate in my life.
I wonder if coping will be
my everyday strategy,
if the enemy shall wake me,
accompany me each moment
throughout the hours
like it did the generation before me.
Are genes my destiny?
How will I break free
of the pattern
that's already begun?
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Note: Digital art by Elizabeth Munroz
