Discovered this quote I remembered two days after writing the poem
Choke
Into every life comes the inevitable choke.
It comes unexpected and is no joke.
It comes in daylight and darkness's cloak.
But it comes regardless to every and all.
A chicken bone swallowed in haste.
A glass of wine breathed without taste.
A reflux of acid, dry and sticky like paste.
Both the lowly and mighty make the fall.
Feeling the hands tight around your throat.
A time for panic, not a time to gloat.
And then you wake up, and that's all she wrote.
It was only a dream, a tale, tall.
Before a great audience, speech comes to end.
Turning red, and then blue, as signals send.
High blood pressure pumping around the bend.
Heeding the urgency of emergency's call.
And if you say that you never choke.
We all come to that fork in the road's yoke.
When our balloon is burst with a single poke.
And our composure takes on a gray pall.
So don't test the water of an inevitable choke.
Be kind to yourself and throw off the yoke.
Roll with the punches and laugh at the poke.
For you never know when a choke will call.
Heimlich maneuver and give it your best.
The time is not now, to enter your rest.
Be prepared and answer the inevitable test.
And live to see another beautiful fall.
Copyright 2017 © Ronald W. Hull
7/27/17
Read this poem at my website here.
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Love ya!
Jane
Be kind to yourself and throw off the yoke.
Roll with the punches and laugh at the poke.
For you never know when a choke will call.
This is wise advice, Ron. And you are right, we all "choke" at some point in time, sometimes a lot more than just once. I speak humbly from experience and hopefully, I have learned from those "choking" episodes. Love and peace to you,
Regis
getting me into its clutches & not releasing me till I stand up. Wish I could sleep standing up...:) -e-
To jest about choking
is ignoring the truth
that this is like soaking
our toast in Vermouth...
A Fall in the UK leads to bruising
Far from the hours of peaceful snoozing
So dear Ron I applaud your words
Spread the word on-line and to birds
A Choke can be cleared with a cough so loud
You have delivered it so well you should be proud.
Always,
Deborah