Thought the flu was gonna kill me had the worst Asthma attack of my life and while gasping for air on Jan 4th 2013 -
I wrote :
My chest sings the song of a heavily weighted gong sitting firmly on a symphonic soprano
Lying supine on the floor with vaulted ceilings and seats galore of a highly acclaimed opera.
There she belts out concertos at very high C.
With the accompaniment of string sniffling and percussion sneeze.
Most it be so cold for my chest and my nose seem to compete for the most recognition.
But my chest speeds to best as flem rattles my chest as I cough it gets my full attention.
How high can you get ? How low can you go? This infernal wheeze is demanding.
For breathing my friends is a fight to the end . And all my energy leaves me just - panting.
Copyright
©2013 Norell-Lee Ramsay.
My asthmatic friends can relate.
Dependency can be so seductively comfortable but I chose to be my own self and not rest on but to stand beside and then I wrote:
TIME
Time to take a stand
To hold myself up on my own two feet
To look neither left or right
But to hold myself
Who am I if made in the frame and mind of the maker
Who am I if not strong by the hand of the creator
And still I doubt the power within
I confess my will is thin
If lazy is my companion then no further shall I get.
When I shake my weary head and ask the question how did lazy end up so comfortably wrapped up in my bed
of life. Its time to make a choice.
Like a one night stand whose face turns sweet to sour with the dawn or a spouse no longer faithful and worthy of my Love I divorce you my un welcomed lover.
Instead I make bed angels in my bed Alone for only within me is the answer to the questions I only dreamt of once when I was whole and not sharing my life with the one who stole
My will
Sapped it dry from my loin and my lips but no more I say no more.
It is my time -
Time to take a stand
To hold myself up on my own two feet
To look neither left or right
But to hold myself.
Go forward, Do something,Speak my mind,Be.
Copyright
©2013 Norell-Lee Ramsay.
