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
Questions & Answers
Comments
AUTHORGypsy Rose Lee Finally we are back to our old selves again. We never missed a day of work. In our free time, all we did is take cold medicine and sleep. It is so nice to feel the energy back in our bodies. The weather turned really cold 19 degrees. The rest of the week is supposed to be more of the same. Very little snow this year. I am happy with that. I am so happy you got to share. One day at a time. The rest will recharge you to a better story and to a better way. Have a great day. Thank you for all your support.
It is that time when I would rather sleep than work. Our weather has turned cool and in a place where you expect warm it makes you feel drab and cold and all you want to do is curl up in bed and sleep. So I am working as much as I can and when I get sleepy then I lay down for a while again. I know once our temps rise again I will be up and about. Hope you both start feeling good again and the colds are a thing of the past.
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Jphn Hansen i love the good news.Is she home from the hospital? When I loved one is not feeling their best it throws a monkey wrench in the works. My whole life goes on hold. My wife gives me the time to write. So every writing is part me part her. Even though we are miles apart it is amazing how we can connect on many levels. Thank you for all your comments and support.
Dream On, just updating you on my wife condition. She is now well on the road to recovery though still a little week. Thank you for the thoughtful words.
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John Hansen When I hear about other people being sick I close my eyes and think for the next few minutes of a healing wish that I send to comfort and to mend. We don't yet know the power of our owns minds. I think in the future we will find out that we can help heal each other through the power of thought. So I keep practicing now and let medical science catch up to what I already believe. So this simple prayer of love and kindness and good health goes out to your wife. If we all took a little extra time thinking of others instead of ourselves what a better place life would be, Please let me know how she is doing? My wife and I are slowly feeling better. Each day we continue to take Mucinex maximum strength medicine it seems to help. I can breathe and my wife's cough has stopped. Boy I love the good feeling of being healthy. I will never take good health for granted, Sometimes my head is in a fog. All I can do is sleep like a bump on a log. Then when I come to my senses I try to write something nice. In my mind I pretend I have acres and acres of land. I am a farmer. A good day would be where I would be out in the field mending all my broken fences. Making today better than yesterday. Making sure my cattle didn't get away. I grew up watching Bonanza a t.v. program that i enjoyed so much. No matter what problem they had they solved it by the end of the show, That's my plan also. Thirty minutes later I am healed. Well in real life it takes a little longer. (lol). Thank you for reading and sharing. Happy New Year and may 2019 be everything you could ever want.
Yes, DreamOn, I have had days like that when I feel so sick and lacking energy or motivation but we have to carry on knowing it won't last forever. My wife in fact was just in hospital with severe flu and asthma....that was a little scary but she is improving. This was well-written, thank you for sharing despite feeling unwell.
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