Breasts      30.4.20


Beautiful twins

Nurturing life

Intoxicate

And delight.

All ages

Squealing child

To a man in love

With his blushing bride.


Shaped gracefully

Master Potter's craft

Not simple beauty

Intricate works of art.


Budding and branching

As a young girl

Emerges as a butterfly

Vibrant and unfurled.


Rivers of milk

Pouring forth

Mysterious chemistry

Complex physiology at work.

Brain neural pathway- 

Let down reflex

Baby satiated dozing

Sometimes enough to wash his face!!


Designed to charm

A woman's arsenal

Ogles and leers

But natural.


Today met some women

Under my microscope lens

Five to be exact

Left me sad and spent.


Five different ladies

Ages diverse

Now sisters in suffering

Lives changed for the worse.


Homemakers mothers

Daughters and wives

Some early some late

Crossroad of their lives.


Joined by a common thread

Infiltration

Desmoplasia

Tumour embolization..


What happened?

Why wasn't it caught before?

Did the husband lose interest?

Did she lose her curves and youth

So he wasn't enamored anymore?


Are they lonely together

In their families

Is there no one

For their needs?


Long haul ahead

Who's going to hold them together?

When they're weak with disease

And/or the treatment please?


Will their husbands balk

When they go bald?

Will their children not hug them?

Show some compassion?


When they come- to 

After mutilating surgery

Will someone tell them

They're still lovely?


Our sisters these five

And countless others alike

Dear Jesus, give us eyes to see

People like you and me.

We have no edge over them

No modicum of superiority

We sit across them now

A crevasse of feigned sympathy.


Your love and life 

Healing poured freely

At the cross

From Your agony.


Wounds and stripes

You received

For our ravaged lives

 All our sickness and disease.


We pray for them

And ourselves

That we speak to them

Perhaps give an embrace


Let them know

They're loved by Him

He's with them 

In their suffering.


Stands waiting

Arms open wide

And they'll be made whole

Complete with new life.



Lisa Choudhrie


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