A Five Year Sentence

Excerpt from This Too Shall Pass

A 5-Year Sentence

You had the cancer scare

You had it cut out

You had treatments

You learned how to breathe again

You were exercising

Being healthy is what you always were

Doctor said you have a 10% chance it can come back

5 years is what they told you

Let’s count together 1-2-3

So as your friends were dying off

From different types of cancer

Your mortality was in question

You started saying you lived a good life

You needed to finish everything you put on your bucket list

You were scaring your spouse

Where was your faith?

A tear ran down your cheek

You said, “I have 5 years!”

Biography of Patricia A. Saunders

Self Published Author, Patricia A. Saunders was born and raised in Connecticut before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area nearly 23 years ago. She received her Master’s in Management from the University of Phoenix in 2011. After the passing of her mother who had Alzheimer’s, Patricia decided that all the words that she kept to herself were to be released.

She released her first self published book Through the Fire (March 2012) which covered emotions from situations, circumstances, and life lessons that have influenced her over her lifetime. On a mission to complete a book a year in case she inherits the ugly disease she released her second book Loving Me (2013) and third Let It Rain (2014) which is also self published and covers various topics from love, grief, self image, self esteem, bullying, and discovery of self love .Her fourth book (2016) This Too Shall Pass was released by AuthorHouse Publishing and readers have given it a five star rating. The book was inspired from three note cards she received after the passing of her mother when she felt like giving up on life, on the brink of losing her home and being unemployed that encouraged her to live for those who loved her. Her very latest book will be released this Fall by Book Baby Publishing (2017) There Is Sunshine After The Rain a non-fiction novel that includes poetry is birthed after the tenth anniversary of her Mother’s passing, the reality that with every lesson that she has experienced through life that there is a reason, there are tests that all are faced with, but it’s how you respond. Saunders chose poetry and nonfiction to let the readers know the thought process behind the poetry, tools to help others who may face the same circumstances, and it builds a relationship further between the author and those reading her words.

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