Two Recovery Poems

February 14, 2009

What Do I Want?

Do I want to lose or want to win?

If I should lose the weight,

Will I win my own self-worth?

If I should lose my body

Will I regain my soul?

No!-my soul is a part of my body
And my body is a temple.

I must take care of it

Or I will not live.

And what is living?

Is it a skeleton zombie

OR

Is it curves of strength and wisdom?

Perhaps to lose is to win

Maybe it’s more like surrender.

If I give up what I want,

Then perhaps I will get what I need.

(I wrote this poem the last time I was in the hospital using only magnetic poetry.)

Life's Rhythm

Rhythm in us

Ecstatic voice

Sing red and orange

Our time is full.

When you slather

Sea, dirt, and air

Leave your lounge

Wait for this storm.

Imagine popsicles

Orange and red

Leave lunch

Taste life!

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