The Initiation

I feel differently.

since my diagnoses of breast cancer.

The surgery was virtually painless.

No radiation or chemo.

I haven’t taken enough hormone inhibitor pills to have a reaction.

But everything has changed

inside my head and heart.

Other events in my life have been more earth shattering,

painful, traumatic, heartbreaking.

So why do I now feel differently inside?

Is it because I dreaded it so

and it turned out not as disruptive as feared?

Or was it merely my launch and

I passed through the veil into old age.