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‘M back went out
I was down for the count.
Couldn’t walk, couldn’t sit.
Pitched a real hissy fit!
Laid in m’ bed, in mighty bad pain.
Prayed me a prayer to be cool again.
A friend of a friend came by to see
What in the world she could do for me.
She say: “Uh ah! No way! You can do or be!
Your stuck now, girl, in this reality!”
She worked her magic on my sorry spine.
Cut the pain by 20, by 50 over time.
I laid in bed, with 50 to go
Stewin’ ’bout not bein’ in m’ daily flow.
Then I started thinkin’ ’bout what made me smile
‘Bout times I’d gone that extra mile,
‘Bout people I love and blessings I had,
‘Bout places I’d been to that made me feel glad.
And, Yo! Uh ah, no way, I could do or be
Packin’ a sad in that reality.
My body relaxed cuz my heart did the talkin’
And next day I was up and walkin’!
Sittin’ was hard, so I upped the ante
And turned me into a Smile Vigilante!
I opened me up to an inner strain
And lifted m’ sit above its pain.
So I lost a few weeks of doin’ and bein’
But I changed the whole thing with some good heart seein’.
Pain comes, pain goes as everything do
Life is what is is, but joy gets ya’ through.
And un ah, no way I wanna do or be
Make nothin’ but joy my life’s reality.
posted November 9, 2010 at 11:31 am
Marg Def!
posted November 10, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Clever title and clever poem for a not so clever condition. But so glad you were able to work out of the pain. May you continue to be up and walking. And up to writing. Margaret Guthrie