The key is never to get off the track in the first place. But it is amazing how modern medicine can save us to live another day. I learned this when surgery was the only thing that could save me from pneumonia in December, 2012. I've come back from that healthier and it wasn't much of a sacrifice with a short recovery to getting back to normal.
Your poem is a call to get up and get going because we never know when our time is up. As long as we are well enough to do it, now is the time to get busy and enjoy life before we can't anymore.
Excellent write! We all have our regrets but there are also times when we have chosen wisely. Smoking is a nasty habit, drinking is as well but hard drugs can be living hell. We all have overcome much during the journey in life. Amen!
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Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Your poem is a call to get up and get going because we never know when our time is up. As long as we are well enough to do it, now is the time to get busy and enjoy life before we can't anymore.
Ron