Postponed

Today was the toughest yet. Surgery postponed. Body was running a temperature. It's running scared. Fight or flight. Wings of a penguin. Stubborn body. What are you waiting for? Maddening. How you cling to the pain yet crumple under the emotional pain.

swollen feet, sore teeth

Swollen feet, sore teeth
Long days, longer nights
Cells multiply, are you in my blood?

Wondering, waiting
Cut it out, radiate and poision
Follow protocol, but never certain

This beautiful body is now a cage
I want to move, soar, fly
Swollen feet, sore teeth

*sigh*

Weak

Weak:
in the knees
of heart
of spirit

pain floats above the body

Flanders

Curious, coy, certain
Beautiful, playful Flanders
Proud yet unsure

Feet are steady, chest is proud
Quick to move, but legs betray
Grace replaced with uncertainty

Chirp, chirp, when you land
Mew, mew, when you need
Silence and you are master

Contra

Watcha know? Watcha see?
She's not her, her is not she
Sure, I will have this dance

Stepping, swinging, twirling
Twinkle toes? Ginger I am not
A gusto that Fred would approve

Thirty to eighty-eight, my partners
Can you read a man by his swing?
Sure, I will have this dance