Walk With Me

[Graystar]

Walk With Me
By Graystar
May 2013

The landscape is my body.
Pain is friend and foe.
Come walk with me.

Toes curled with arthritis,
dull and stabbing pain,
begin the journey with one step.

Ankles, strong and stiff,
bidding pain you come out!
Dancing once was carefree.

Calves what did I ever do to you
that you now ache and burn
with a fire of sun-fury tight?

Knees throb. My friends, ahoy!
How to endure the glory engaged
of pain bound with endless screams.

Low back not forgotten, darling.
You give such stabbing pain,
keep me from standing, don't you?

Shoulder blades your knife is sharp,
buried deep. Someone pull it out!
Set me free, hell drags me about.

Neck crane into pain pinching hard.
You freeze my stiffness hot and tight.
Teeth clinching ride along gasping.

Eyes desert dry, blowing sand stings.
Your value never diminishes I cry!
Weep salty sticky tears coping.

Head-fever ache of blinding pain
joins sinus draining pressure;
more meds to confuse the brain.

My trail ends with a cliff,
hang, tenuous fingers blue.
Pain, you are a bitchy tour guide!