A big lesson to be learned here
Lifting weights wrongly can give you a hernia
Especially now that you’re not a junior
An abdominal lump quite peculiar
Ignoring it can cause unbearable pain, yeah
Then you wait for the doctor in turn, yeah
Realize that surgeries can completely burn ya
But it’s the only hope it doesn’t return, nah
Damn that darn infernal hernia
There are times thoughts gather
Which I cannot wish away
Let’s walk a step towards peace
But my damn legs will not move Continue reading →
This week, who hasn’t felt this hasn’t lived… it’s the stuff that poetry is made of…only the French could come up with such a magically expressive phrase! Continue reading →
Who am I
to intrude upon
your thoughts, your time, your space
to ask for something, anything
except a selfish, old fool
with the audacity
to love you so ardently
My heart
It once came across an angel
White wore she
Her halo intact
Her aura glowed
Pure and pristine
A hand reaches down.
And picks them up, gingerly, gently, with care.
A fractured fragment.
A shattered shard.
Brittle, broken, ruptured remnants.
Places them in order. Continue reading →
Get up, stand up, carry on the fight
Don’t you dare call it a night
Don’t you lose focus, don’t lose sight
You can’t quit, it ain’t over and out
There’s always but always another bout
So get up again and shed that doubt
There’s a crown to win, don’t lose hope
Put up your guard, rebound off the ropes Continue reading →
I’d rather write a thousand words
And have you draw that one picture
On the canvas of your mind
You know that familiar scalloped shape
Tapering to a point
Colour it a crimson
Let the paint run Continue reading →
See that wad of paper on the floor?
Crushed, crumpled, forlorn and alone,
Cast aside and thrown away, ignored, stepped upon…
Without the dignity of being put in a bin,
Where it can lie hidden, in wait of recycling.
It was once a fresh, crisp sheet. Continue reading →
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