“Invisible” by Mika Rovner

Invisible

I get it:

Focus on the disease
Take a piece of it, test it, analyze it
Learn what nourishes, what flourishes, what inhibits it,
Starve it, shrink it, beat it
Know it intimately, to try and kill it.

But the vessel? The human being attacked from the inside by self turned enemy? Invisible in plain sight.

How rapidly out of control microscopic malignant pieces of self turned enemy affect every moment of your waking being
How you think feel taste see sense hear
How you relate to those who are other, to those outside your own body,
How you relate to your own body, your own being.

Every waking breath
Suspended
Impacted
Changed forever
How to move through, how to prevent the malignancy physically growing inside you
from malignifying your life

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4/17/2025

Mika Rovner is a medical oncologist and 2 time breast cancer patient whose creative healing journey has led her to yoga, journaling, and poetry. She's excited to share this, her first published piece of work.