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1000 Paper Cranes
May 15, 2019
Folded origami
Paper cranes
Delicately fluttering
Count of 1000
Healing comes
When reached
Radioactive
From the womb
Worldly Wars
Caused quite
A predicament
Throwing off
Your own weakness
Running free
For the time being
Growing painfully
Quiet
Bones frail
The sickness doesn’t fail
Made a friend
Within hospitals walls
He fell first
Count
The folded birds
So close
but
To weak to fold the paper
Last days
Time left frays
Fade away
Reach a peace
Of mind
Slip into
Your mind
One
Final time
© Sarah S., Poland Spring, ME
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First and formost this poem was inspired by the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
I got the idea to write this in my English teachers classroom whilst looking a a mobile of sorts with paper cranes on it about ten minutes later a poem BOOM! MAGIC ✨
dont mind the image it doesn’t matter the website wouldn’t let me go without having one