Constance La France Poet Free verse

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My Near Death Journey

 
back in 2012 I got sick and thought it was my end
      I believed that my writing days were over
        so I deleted all my poems on Poetry Soup
          but for some reason not my account
did I still have hope ...

      I did end up in the hospital
          (stayed there for six months )
the doctors told my family to prepare themselves 
   they kept me in intense care for weeks
           my sister came every day to weep 

               I had dreams of my mother
   calling my name from far away  
          I was running through trees searching
  searching ...  then, one day I woke up

                    to find out I had kidney failure
     but, I survived  and I am telling you this story
        it was a long recovery in hospital
                I live with one kidney now
and treasure each new dawn

           when I started feeling better 
   I  began walking around and found the hospital chapel
       on a table was a Bible...1 opened it
               and that has made all the difference

         back in my room I wanted to write
  I called my family to bring me paper and pens
               my brother set me up with a computer
     and I began writing again ...

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May 22, 2022


Poetry/Free Verse/My Near Death Journey
Copyright Protected, ID 05-1458-020-22
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France

Written for the contest, How You Live or
Have Been Healed From A Difficult  and
Challenging Health Condition 
Sponsor, Angela Tune, Judged 06/07/2022

Second Place

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Jennifer Fenn June 15, 2022 at 4:32 PM Wow Constance! You’ve been to hell and back! I’m sorry you had to go through all that. You wrote a great poem about it. Constance La France June 15, 2022 at 5:50 PM Jennifer, thank you so much for the compliment and compassion, blessings ~Constance

Paula Goldsmith June 7, 2022 at 10:57 AM Congratulations on your win. WOW!!! An amazing story/write and picture. God has a plan for you and your life. I would send Soup a note and see if they can send you your back poems. Put a poem out asking for them. Maybe some have them as FAV. Be healthy and blessed always as you write wonderful writes......................... Constance La France June 7, 2022 at 12:27 PM Paula, thank you so much for the congratulations, compliment and comment, I have asked Soup and once you delete poems they are gone forever, so I cannot dwell on that but just go forward like I have been doing, blessings ~Constance

Richard Tipping June 7, 2022 at 10:38 AM I always say that nobody knows what others go through unless they choose to tell you and I’m grateful you have. You were not the only beneficiary from your recovery. Without it we wouldn’t be able to experience the pleasure your writing brings us. Soupers are one of many outlets and important supportive people that are helping me through my illness and I hope we can all continue to be supportive and encouraging to each other especially at our most difficult times. Constance La France June 7, 2022 at 12:30 PM Richard, I am so sorry to hear you are ill, I will pray healing thoughts for you. Actually after my near death my poetry has been much better than before, the growth amazes me, it is like God himself is guiding my pen, blessings ~Constance

Laura Leiser May 23, 2022 at 3:39 PM I didn’t know this about you, Constance. Your poem is very moving and I see the hand of God in this near death experience to preserve your life…both physically and spiritually. It was not your time to go, and we get to benefit from reading your incredible poetry! God bless! :) Constance La France May 24, 2022 at 8:44 AM Laura, thank you so much for visiting my poem, yes, it was a dark time for me in 2012, but I do believe now that God touched me in that near death and brought me to the Bible, no. it was not my time obviously for I had writing to do, blessings ~Constance

Darlene De Beaulieu May 23, 2022 at 12:06 PM Hello Constance, I am glad that you are doing alright now. You have been through a lot. I am glad you walked around and found the chapel. I am glad you decided to write again. Hugs. Friendship & love, Darlene Darlene De Beaulieu May 24, 2022 at 10:10 AM Hello Constance, I sent you a Soup mail because Y A lot of damage. I am glad you are alright. We had some branches hanging from a tree that needs to come down. I hope there was not too serious damage where you live. Hugs. Constance La France May 24, 2022 at 8:45 AM Darlene, thank you so much for visiting my poem, yes, I have had a twisted journey to here, blessings ~Constance

Rico Leffanta May 23, 2022 at 11:58 AM 3-months in hospital was more than enough for me! Congratulations on your survival! As for your "lost" poems, they are still floating around the internet - somewhere! Aloha! Constance La France May 24, 2022 at 8:50 AM Rico, thank you so much for the visit, 3 months in hospital is long and 6 even longer, if not for writing I would have gone nuts (and the TV). The hospital had a coffee shop and I would go each day for a real coffee and take it outside, my sister said that I made my little section of the hospital room a nest, that's what I do, blessings ~Constance

Judy Ball May 23, 2022 at 5:20 AM Oh Connie this is remarkable. My daughter just had one kidney removed due to cancer. Wonderful story. God Bless and so glad you are recovered. JB Constance La France May 23, 2022 at 9:51 AM Judy, thank you so much for the compliment, I hope you daughter is cancer free now, and tell you that she can function very well, on one kidney, I am prove of that, and thanks for your kind words, blessings ~Constance

The Situation May 22, 2022 at 7:13 PM Going through what you been through now. I remember reading your stuff after 2012 though. I;m just getting my writing pen back. But with the death experience I have more. Constance La France May 23, 2022 at 9:54 AM Situation, thank you so much for the visit and comment, so you are going through this same thing, it is not easy, writing really helped me so if you can just start penning words, just let them fall, yes, sadly every poem pre about August 2012, is lost to me now, because I destroyed all hard copies also, blessings ~Constance