Mosaic Life
A Memoir in Verse
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Listen, Cancer, damn nuisance they call the “Big C” –
You may be tough, but I think you’ve met your match in me.
I have so much to live for, so much living to do!
And I won’t give that up for a freak thing like you.
My doctors and I have a plan that can win
So don’t think for a second that I might give in.
Th e chemo does make me feel sick, but I’ll live –
I can certainly beat any resistance you give.
So you think you’re so tough ‘cause they call you “Big C?”
Well, I’m tougher than you; you know what they call me?
S U R V I V O R !!
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About the Book
Karen Hatch-Taylor is a poet, a parent, and a survivor. She describes in the verses herein how she met her favorite author online and bridged ten thousand miles to win his heart, and then how she endured first a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor and subsequent surgery, then a battle with cancer and the discovery that her middle child is autistic. Truly her life, told here in her eloquent poetry, has been a mosaic of light and dark moments, of extraordinary pain, extraordinary love, and extraordinary survival against an unimaginable assault of stressful events and dire medical conditions. She hopes that this volume will inspire others who face adversity.
About the Author
Karen Hatch-Taylor describes herself this way: "parent, poet, survivor." A mother of three, she's written poetry for most of her life, but events of the last two decades provided particular inspiration as Karen's life was shaken by betrayal, divorce, a lifesaving brain surgery that left her permanently disabled,a horrific bout with cancer, the revelation that her middle child is autistic, and then a diagnosis of diabetes. "The Universe is trying to kill me." she laughs, "but I'm not going. My kids need me." Despite these dark spots in her life's mosaic, there have been bright ones, too. After her divorce she experienced what she calls "most women's fantasy"...a whirlwind romance with an attractive foreign writer who turned out to be her soulmate, a happy marriage with him; three children, all of them happy, healthy, beautiful, and brilliant.