Poetry & Prose · Second Edition

Forever is Tomorrow.

A window into a tormented mind—written from inside kidney disease, dialysis, mortality, isolation, and the daily uncertainty of not knowing how much time remained.

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Written from the darkest place.

This collection of poetry and prose tells a story through thoughts, nightmares, fragments, and moments of unfiltered reality. Some pieces are abstract. Others are painfully direct. Together, they document the emotional interior of a life shaped by illness from an early age.

This was not writing about the darkness from a safe distance. It was writing from inside it.

The Reality Behind the Work

A life measured by machines and uncertainty.

The poems confront the physical, mental, and emotional turmoil of fighting kidney disease and spending much of a life on dialysis. They carry the exhaustion of treatment, the fear of mortality, the anger of watching time move for everyone else, and the private question beneath it all: when will the waiting end—and what will be left when it does?

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A work that stands on its own.

Forever is Tomorrow is not part of the Chaos series. It belongs to a different period, a different emotional reality, and a version of the author who was still enduring dialysis and writing to survive what could not be resolved or escaped.

Many people will never have to see this reality. These pages ask them not to take that distance for granted.

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Scott W. Burton Forever is Tomorrow · Second Edition