Blessing for My Left Breast
“Your Skin Slit round
with a scalpel:
Be brave.
Rise to the aluminum
tray,the biopsy needle.
Go, Nipple; go, milk
ducts; go veins.
Take with you my lymph
nodes,
Canaries of illness,
blood cells’ puff balls.
Blessed be my chest
wall for surrendering.
Now you will never
shrink and wrinkle with age,
clove-studded orange, bittersweet.
Taken in your beauty,
let the last hands
That hold you
Be gentle”
Silver
is telling her breast to be strong and to be ready for the
removal of her breast. Having a breast removed because of
breast cancer, a woman sometimes feels like she is losing a
part of herself and her womanhood. In society, women are
defined to having the perfect body and for instance, if you
one of your breast then it would not defined you as a
complete woman. Silver wants the doctor to be soft during
her surgery but in reality doctors do not take that
inconsideration. Unfortunately for Silver, her wish cannot be
granted.
removal of her breast. Having a breast removed because of
breast cancer, a woman sometimes feels like she is losing a
part of herself and her womanhood. In society, women are
defined to having the perfect body and for instance, if you
one of your breast then it would not defined you as a
complete woman. Silver wants the doctor to be soft during
her surgery but in reality doctors do not take that
inconsideration. Unfortunately for Silver, her wish cannot be
granted.
The doctors are doing their job, they are removing her breast.The doctor are working hard so that they cannot let cancer spread around body. Even through she lost her confidence, there is a supporting group even in tumber. There is a rough path but they over come from the supporting group. Society tells and shown through media that this is what a women is attracted.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you refer to the meaning of soft, there is so many meaning of soft?