pain and doctors
medical lamp glowing red
aching days
despair
chiropractors physiotherapists pills
depression fear a long year
leg agony
tingles pins and needles
thank God i can still walk
but for how long
from my bony skeletal prison I see
others limp wrestle shopping-baskets sticks
doctor cheerful
by thirty you’ll be in a wheelchair
pills beckon escape
a child’s clasping needs
greater than my fear a long year
hope glows with morning
lost in the aching shrivel of afternoon
blessed night
at last
the miracle of sleep
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I've reached the age of flamboyance and bling.I love Classical FM, Jazz, French chansons, French movies, SBS Documentaries and Wednesdays with my Women Writers Critique Group at the NSW Writers Centre.I've published short stories and the occasional article. My novel/'faction on nursing in the 20th Century,' BLACK STOCKINGS WHITE VEIL - A TALE OF ADVERSITY, TRIUMPH AND ROMANCE AT ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL'- was a Finalist in the 2009 Indie Book Awards. I've critiqued a second fictional family memoir, 'SONGS FROM HEAVEN', and am working through a third, 'GOING HOME'.
