Failure
Failure
Is just a word away.
A refusal
To arise in the morning,
A complacency
When the sun is not shining;
When war storms through my door,
Failure is just the failure
to make another mistake.

(I wanted to picture failure, w/out being depressing. Did it work?!)
The Phoenix
Don't label my life
with a Finally
Don't tell me
that the light is at the
End.
For the light is continuous-
There is no finally.
Life carries on after death-
An eternal renewal.

What Works
The meds do not work.
Because the meds do not listen.
They don’t hold our hand-
They do not care.
The meds do not work
-At least-
not enough!
What does work?
LOVE!
And I can feel it here,
And I can feel it now-
It is enough.

(Click on the image to read the article, "Love as Medicine" by David Simon, a doctor who writes about "listening for the underlying story" behind his patients' pain.)
This is really interesting. I am finishing a graduate studies project and am borrowing your phoenix picture to symbolize transformation. I like the blog. If you would like to talk more, email me kellybook81@yahoo.com
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