2006 October:

2005 August:

Life kindly offered to embrace me this morning
It extended one arm and then the other came
Took me by the throat and started wildly swinging
Left and right, left and right, until I stopped breathing

I felt my toes gently scratching the wooden floor
Leaving small marks though with diminishing vigor
My vision twisting into a blinding tunnel
A TV marathon of what I have lived before

I see that this embrace was not offered in vain
My deficient mind now as bent as is my neck
Unable now to differentiate joy from pain
Embraces Life back, fades away, yet I remain