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    A Piece of Me: A Contemporary Poetry Collection
    A Piece of Me: A Contemporary Poetry Collection
    A Piece of Me: A Contemporary Poetry Collection
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    A Piece of Me: A Contemporary Poetry Collection

    By Sarah Wilson

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    A poet once said that poetry and beauty are born from pain...I believe this, because I've lived this.

    A brain aneurysm and massive stroke changed my life, causing me to lose verbal and physical function for many years. As an AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation) survivor, skin cancer survivor, and being legally blind, it would've been easy to give up and quit. Instead, I became a fighter and began living life to its fullest, never taking anything for granted.

    I've decided to write a collection of poetry to express the words that I've held in my heart and soul all these years. This collection expresses the way I feel and how I view life, love, friendship, sadness, and loss.

    I'm a new and improved woman, life has taught me so many lessons, and now is the time to share what I've learned with the world--this is A Piece of Me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarah Wilson.
    Release dateFeb 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386628095
    A Piece of Me: A Contemporary Poetry Collection
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    Sarah Wilson

    Sarah Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety, which redefined the mental health genre, and I Quit Sugar, along with eleven cookbooks that have been published in fifty-two countries. Previously, she was editor of Cosmopolitan Australia, host of MasterChef Australia and founder of iquitsugar.com, an 8-week program that has seen millions worldwide break their sugar addiction. In May 2018, Sarah committed to giving all proceeds from the business to charity. She now builds and enables charity projects that engage humans with one another, and campaigns on mental health, consumerism, and climate issues. Sarah lives in Sydney, Australia, is an obsessive hiker and spent eight years travelling the world with one bag.

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      A Piece of Me - Sarah Wilson

      Monday

      Iremember that Monday,

      as if it were yesterday.

      You were on the train, so was I, it was afternoon.

      I saw you there, my eyes and yours were one,

      I could breathe no longer.

      Your crimson lips called mine,

      as they looked so soft and tender.

      Those dark eyes looking at me,

      as dark as onyx hidden deep in the earth,

      bright like the moon on a clear night.

      My imagination ran wild,

      as I saw myself making love to you

      under the blackened expanse. 

      After that moment, every Monday,

      I look for you on the train.

      But you never appeared again.

      Without voice and sense of time, I looked for you,

      with no success my king.

      Each Monday I was there,

      but your face I did not see.

      Please come back and share the view

      with me from the window. 

      Give me life with your smile,

      give me hope with your beautiful eyes

      gazing into mine.

      Monday has only become a day of torture,

      for the train is empty without you,

      a lost destination.

      After that day I lost the possibility of ever

      loving you,

      truly to the end of our journey. 

      Everything is gone,

      my desire, my voice,

      my soul as the ticking of my heart

      turns into a time bomb ready to explode.

      Why are you not where you should be?

      Tell me when you are coming back

      so I can turn back the hands of time,

      to embrace that moment in a timeless cage.

      You are my angel eyes,

      the dark eyes that I will patiently

      wait for every Monday and into forever.

      Immortal

      Today I want to explore all the slopes

      and peaks on your body

      that lead

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