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Coming apart at the seams...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
Friday, May 29, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Don't get old, it isn't what its cracked up to be...


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Since 2009 and the discovery of my diabetes,
I have had all manner of illnesses,
Gall bladder removed,
Heart repaired,
And now my kidneys are inefficient,
To the point of my needing, eventually dialysis,
No longer is my body even the least bit self-sufficient…

No, I am not whining again, well maybe a little,
Just I am getting a bit old and becoming quite brittle,
My legs do spasm so that I cannot sleep,
My head pounds, I wish it were from wine cheap…

But what else can I do but laugh,
My tear ducts are empty of tears,
For all this crap of late I should be getting time & a half,
How much worse could my body get,
If I went back to drinking beers…
© -ed- 5/29/15

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 Reviews of "Coming apart at the seams..."
Reviewed by Sonya Tomlinson
Reviewed on May 31, 2015
Healing blessings to you Ed.
May your spirit be uplifted
and your pain be relieved.
sonya ki

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on May 31, 2015
Keep On, Keepin On - and find a hobby or two;
Busy minds and bodies - help take away the blues.

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on May 30, 2015
Just remember, each day you wake up, you're still,on the right side of the sod.

Best wishes,
Michael D.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
Thank you all, you've made me cry and while I find myself at times wanting to be just dead, I read of you all and feel that I just might have some time left...thank you friends,all...-e-

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
I send you my empathy and hope you can get on your bike for a short ride or two, and as you feel better, longer ones. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by John Coppolella
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
Spasms, pain and sufferings, the inequalities professing themselves again, and sheep are shaved and shorn, finally put out to pasture to die. Good news is that you are here to spit in the face of death. Modern medicine is a miracle when you can afford it it is another. This verse you write is full of might, and I wish you the best in your fight, the cure is not out of sight, just going for the highest price. So there Ed, there is no more to said, so glad you are not finished yet! -- starman

Reviewed on May 29, 2015
Just remember that modern medicine never stops striving for better medicines and treatments. Keep the faith, hon!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
We all gradually come apart at the seams. I feel your pain, especially the leg spasms that kept me up last night from sleep for two hours. At least I don't have sugar dissolving my essential organs.

I'm not going to give you advice as to what to do except to say that there may be ways you can alleviate that pain. You are much too young to be going through it.

Ron

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on May 29, 2015

I have helped support a few surgeons but nothing as bad as you have experienced. Old age for some is not what it cracked up to be.

Reviewed by Walt Hardester
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
seems like the seams
only seem like they are being rent.
The best part of every day for me
Is waking up above ground.
coolest thing to be found
you need to look around
you ain't gone yet

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on May 29, 2015
I hear you loud and clear, Ed. I, also have old age problems, but nothing as severe as you have had to bear. I now it i difficult, but even when you say you are "whining just a little" you come of strong. Please Ed, stay strong.


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