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Poetry and prose
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The master thief
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  1. Julie Bradley
  1. Correspondence to Julie Bradley, University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute, 2015 North Jefferson Street, Jacksonville, Florida, US; jbradley{at}floridaproton.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2016-011121

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    His came from the inside.

    One of his own turned.

    Insidious at first

    Subtle, and easy to disregard.

    Unseen, it was stealing

       Stealing balance

       Stealing deglutition

       Stealing memory

    Forcing attention to its ravage

    No longer able to ignore

    It wanted

    Everything.

    But not a complaint was uttered

    Not an angry word said

    As energy dwindled

    Movements labored

    Independence abandoned

    And the steadfast body could no longer be relied upon.

    Stolen by the Master Thief.

    Though It took so much

    It could not win.

    Courage –

    the rarest kind.

    Unfaltering.

    The body. Succumbed.

    The spirit. Impenetrable.

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.