For Her

April 8, 08

My blood is for her,
My sinew my skin,
Sometimes...
Bone.
And my heart is,
For her.

Parents, love her...
So forth, so do I
I tell myself, keep saying
Keep her,
Protect her,
I wish not for her to die.
Risking my life,risking
For her.

My blood is for her,
My sinew my skin,
Sometimes...
Bone.
And my heart is,
For her.

The debate is,
That I love her-
To my own life,
No?
Yes?
Always I say, always.
But, I want to live, [do I?]
My own life, [Can I?]
Yes?
No?
Sometimes I say, sometimes

Until-
My parents’ reason,
For my birth, daughter love,
Was of that-
That-
I was born…Only,
For her.

They love her
~I love her
Sister
~By I

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Based on My Sister’s Keeper, a novel by Jodi Picoult

“Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and injections to help her sister, Kate, fight leukaemia. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more.

But now she can't help but long for respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, and sues her parents for the rights to her own body.”

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The book is a large debate whether parents should have the right to birth a child to keep another alive, and the child’s point of view (both). It is an interesting book and provoking, but not to my exact liking. All the same, I found the topic and turmoil stimulating for debates and other thoughts-