Daily Cascade

Words

Prompt:
Use these words in your entry today: selflessness, heroic, determination, fierce, longshots, peanuts, and timeouts

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Defeat

his *heroic *determination, immense
selflessness* reigned, and he made sense

my husband said, "Be brave, no one is here to stay"
while I chased his *longshots, faraway

and I was *fierce and bold, against all odds
I challenged medicine with doctors its gods

yet never got a break, tiny like *peanuts
for *timeouts and doom reshaped my struts

since, "brave" alone was never enough
losing a loved one for the heart is rough.