Pain shared is lighter
Held by compassionate hearts.
Community serves.

Beyond bare branches
Constellations shimmer bright
Uplifting my gaze

Some say it's the end
fruition of prophets

I know we are stirred
dying and leaving
Those who stay are busy freaking

Earth heating, grumbling
Fault lines rumbling
Economies crashing
Politic back lashing

Universe expanding
we've proven it's true
If I can stay present
I'll see I am too.

I retreat
allowing bones to rest on heat
asking them to do no work
shirk responsibilities....
Where are they now ?
Respond to body, just to me
stopping this insanity
not viewing life as one long test
of strength, endurance, be the best
resisting seeing me as wrong
which I have done all along
Give more, appease that judge within
who's never pleased, with focus grim
so now I stop and just receive
the love that's mine
no cause to grieve.

Now ribs need healing
painfully popped from sockets
myself I wrestle

For days, did nothing but freak out, yelp and moan
exist with pain
Let the pop-doctor press ribs back into place
Then merciful drugs to dull the feeling, coax muscles to relax
Now I drift into sleep with little warning
during conversation, at the computer
In this state, no poetry comes through me
Today, I re-approach sanity and well being.

*How do people live with chronic pain ?

Sun shines now through fog
misconceptions burn away
thanks to expression