What if This Was Your Last Breath?

"What if this was your last breath? Take a breath. And as your lungs taste oxygen for the final time, watch as death unravels the fabric of your story beneath his bony fingertips to take an honest look at the life that you live"? "Did you hold on to things and allow your heart to become hardened by your suffering? Or did you let forgiveness soften the sharp edges of your pain?" 'All that destroyed you was only ever revealing what was indestructible in you,' she says. "[Poetry] is like medicine from a moment that happened in the past where you received medicine, integrated it and now I'm being given the gift to receive it'