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Unnatural Selection: I volunteer as Tribute?

Writer's picture: Surviving Breast CancerSurviving Breast Cancer

By Triona Lonergan



I’ve been chosen…..

yeah, wasn’t even aware there was a competition,

but here I am ….winning!!! 

Requirements for entry were ever so difficult,

but I sailed through without even studying!

Sounds pretty elite…. But that’s just me, right

 

Everyone wants to belong,

be part of something,

feel significant,

have commonality with like-minded folk.

Friend groups…communities, cool kids, artists, writers, pop groups.

But you cannot join my group.

You only qualify as groupie.

I can’t decide ‘not’ to be part of this group.

When you’re in, you’re in (it’s like the mafia) and there’s no going back.

No welcome letter,

No Christmas card,

It’s a secret Society,

and you only learn of other members through whispers and nods.

 

I like to think of us as astrologists,

Except it doesn’t matter what your birth month is….