Life Is A Slippery Slope
One That We Must Manage And Sometimes Cope
With it's stale grey skies not blue
A cough or a touch of a cold
Caught me by surprise
I insist I don't get sick
I am just on pause
When I always want to feel great
Today's not the day
As I whisper quietly to my wife
So no one else can hear
I'm a little under the weather
Later I get worse instead of better
My wife also feeling blah
A sore nose from blowing our nose too much
Medicine every four hours
Head congested and hoping it's not a sinus infection
Sleeping as often as we can
Resting every chance we get
Where is my enthusiasm and power ?
Sucked out of my lungs
Like a vacuum easily and quickly
So fast with a flip of a switch
What happened ?
Can it be so ?
Our body brought to it's knees
Where mere bending makes us dizzy and light headed
Our thoughts once clear and precise
Now are jumbled and incomplete
Little desire to even enjoy
One of the greatest pleasures of life
When I sit down and eat
Even my teeth hurt when I chew
My bones achy and out of place
Work as we must
Becomes a task we carry on
Doing what we have done for so long
I begin to question everything
It must be the medicine
Playing tricks on my mind
No time to start to doubt
Even loud voices
Remind me of someone shouting
Aggrivated or irrated
Which is it ?
I still can't decide
Make up your mind
Make a choice
What's the use
I have lost my muse
I reach for my reading glasses
So unpleased
That I can't even see to read
Snuggled in a bathrobe
Pushed closed because I can't find my robe tie
I shoveled yesterday
Just barely moving the snow
For the longest time
My nose was all stuffy
All I wanted to do is breathe
My head held up
As if by a string
Where it use to bow low
I see where the sun shines a little across the neighbors house
I washed up some dirty dishes
That we piling up in the sink
A slight headache still
My eyes carefully adjusting to the bright kitchen light
My own face where whiskers grow
Seemed so foreign
Like a distant land
Jealous of my own cat Charlotte
Who lays comfortably
As I pat her
She tries to bite me lightly
To say I was so peaceful
Why did you come to disturb me ?
Moving around and turning her back towards me
I listen to my wind chimes ring
It's the wind
They weren't ringing earlier
Now they have stopped all of a sudden
Is it a coincidence ?
I don't think so
I think it's God giving me another reminder
How precious life is
I get up and get dressed
Move forward
A simple statement
That's all my mind can take right now
I will feel better
I believe it to be so