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What No One Tells You

Writer's picture: Surviving Breast CancerSurviving Breast Cancer

By Jessie Woodyard



No one tells you

That the first place someone looks

Someone who hasn't seen you 

since you were diagnosed

is your chest.

Eyes straight to your breasts.

Are they still there? 

Which one is gone? 

Do they look the same to you? 

How about my eyes?

How do they look? 

Do they look through tears 

at you

stealing your glance?

Or are they clear and wide, 

aware and sad?

No one tells you about the drain.

How it's the worst part

until just before it's the worst part of you.

The drain of this illness