Kate—To Her Breast Implant
Posted: 03 Apr 2020, 04:41
Kate—To Her Breast Implant
Where once my left breast
posed in the mirror,
a scar squinted back.
You changed everything.
You handed back my self esteem
like a coat girl returning
my warm cloak on a winter night.
My other breast has grown
accustomed to you,
as if the two of you
had become twin sisters.
Years later, you two will look
like any old couple. Even now
you’re close. When one turns over
in bed the other one follows.
If one of you was lost again
I would be inconsolable.
I'd feel like a wife in a long marriage,
the other side of the bed empty.
Who can replace a lifelong companion?
I look at my husband, and wonder
who between us will go first?
Where once my left breast
posed in the mirror,
a scar squinted back.
You changed everything.
You handed back my self esteem
like a coat girl returning
my warm cloak on a winter night.
My other breast has grown
accustomed to you,
as if the two of you
had become twin sisters.
Years later, you two will look
like any old couple. Even now
you’re close. When one turns over
in bed the other one follows.
If one of you was lost again
I would be inconsolable.
I'd feel like a wife in a long marriage,
the other side of the bed empty.
Who can replace a lifelong companion?
I look at my husband, and wonder
who between us will go first?