Too sum up my life

in one all consuming paragraph

would be giving birth

without the joys of

morning sickness or

the wretching

God knows how much I have wretched

on pages and pages of books

and notes and poems

very similar to this one

I have been deflated and

defeated by those who

hate at will

but most importantly I have been

given a life worth resuscitating every

now and then

This may well be the closing

paragraph of my life but never

the final chapter