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Sixty Year Old Choice

"You've got six months, nine at the most.
If you opt for chemo, we could stretch it some.
Maybe a couple of years, 
but first six months of serious treatments."

When he said nine months
I thought that's the normal prenatal life
So I have possibly a pregnancy left.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Let's see two years minus six months 
minus maybe some more for recovery from chemo.
Or nine months of wondering,
could this be the day?

My neighbor was sick as a dog for most treatments.
She couldn't eat; she couldn't sleep.
Just a forever burning sensation, dry, lifeless, pain

My cousin said his was not so bad, but
then he died only two months afterward,and
they had said he might live five years.

My last nine months, what will I do?
I will get ready to die - prepare to enter a new life.
Wait a minute ...
I am doing that already ever since
I decided to put my trust in God's Son.
My eternal life began at that moment sixty years ago.

I will tell everybody I know how good God is.
But I have cancer; is cancer good?
I look at it this way. 
Cancer is a chapter -
the last nine months of my life on earth.
It defines me and with
God's help I can deal with it - 
without chemo.
He has a plan and cancer is 
part and parcel of it.

The rest is just guesswork.


Premium Member Intensity- In Defense of Intense People

Not everyone can live life in the “intense” mode
It taxes their emotions, and that they cannot bode

They want to be laid back and take things in their stride
So they tuck away their hearts and then run and hide

Intense people are a drain of time and energy
But if you want to see intense, take a look at me

Moments in life with emotions and thoughts are laced
Intensity kisses time, makes it sweetly paced

Sometimes my intensity…can be quite "INTENSE"
Embodiment of passion: woman with no "sense"

But look at it this way, and then you’ll get it right
Passion should be intense, anytime day or night

Think of it and imagine… that long scorching kiss 
When you are pleasured, intensity you’ll not miss

Think of how you’re wanted with intense desire
Intensity makes eternal flames from fire

Intensity of thought will make you feel profound
It’s what will make you soar high...up above the ground

Intensity gives meaning to moments in time
Makes you intensely long to live in the sublime

Intense adoration will be a nat’ral thing
Love will be intense and fulfillment it will bring

Intense caressing: love making to the extreme
Desire drenched in real life and not just a dream

Intense, intense, a curse or is it a blessing sweet?
Well, I guess you’ll never know, until Eileen you meet! ;)

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Couplet

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