Survivor Poem
Mark Nepo
Winter 1999
It seems clear that being a survivor
is embracing the will to live.
And whether that embrace lasts for years
or months or days or even hours,
whoever embraces life is a survivor.
-- from Wounded Healers.
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., editor.
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