Gabrielle

TO MY FORMER SELF

Lucky you

you can stand on two feet

you don’t sway from side to side

you can rise from your bed and run

you don’t stagger for hours every morning

holding on to the walls until your brain ‘warms up’

lucky you

you can write from left to right

you can read and speak and act

in the ‘correct’ sequence

you can open, fill and close a conversation

lucky you

you can drink alcohol, you can go out at night

you can learn a language

you can drive a car

you can get tired without blacking out

you can work

you can run

lucky you

you are ‘independent’

you can articulate

your head is not groggy, all of the time

there is plenty of oxygen

in the air for you

you can think

© Gabrielle S. 2003

Published in “Many Faces Many Lives”

Last modified: Thursday, 20 April 2006