Dimensional

By P. A. Mendelsohn

GP: Time for your mammogram.

You’ve forgotten to care for yourself.

Too busy.

Stop. Do it.

First Dimension.

Radiologist: See that?

Like bubble gum on a shoe

Dragged across your sultry bosom

Loved no more.

At war with your complacency.

Second Dimension.

Surgeon: I got it all.

No need to thank me.

It's my job.

Next.

Really, it's gone. Just a little radiation.

More prevention. With a lasting shadow

Across your lung to remember us by.

See you next year.

Third Dimension.

Spirit.

You are loved.

You are safe.

You are cradled in your fear

You are held in your shadow.

You are never, never alone.

You are ours. We are yours.

Just ask. Listen. Breathe. Repeat.

Fourth Dimension.