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The Balloon
It was pink and punctured
Entangled in bare branches
Discarded, let go
The balloon was meant to make her feel better
Maybe the cancer would go away
It was meant to make her smile, if not for just one day
But when they got to the hospital,
They were too late
The balloon didn’t matter, nothing mattered
So she let the balloon go, just like her sister had
She let go of the pain, the happiness
Watching as the wind took the balloon captive in it’s claws
But instead of soaring, like she so hoped it would
It ran into the tree, deflating in a sigh
She turned away from the balloon, from the branches,
From the cancer
The wind picked up, snapping the balloon back and forth
Grating her ears as she remembered the sight
Of sunken eyes and watery smiles
The bleeding heart, the crying eyes
That balloon would never soar
Her sister would never breathe
She turned away from the tree
And the wind that had broken her dreams
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