Overcare

OVERCARE By Catherine DiBuono I read about myself in a chapter of a book last night I just opened up a page to browse and there I saw my life OVERCARE, it said, produces chaos and stress Related to persons or events or just everyday strife You over-attache and identify too Not just with empathy but beyond what is due. My God, I thought, it’s how I live every day I thought that’s what God wanted,so I did it my way So here I sit writing under blue sky and sun Hoping God’s warming rays will show me the way. God “threw me a brick’, saying open your eyes What you are doing is OVERCARE and not God prescribed Shame, resentment, guilt and more I allowed myself to be engulfed, right down to my core.. My spirit so damaged, panic ten long years gone Has returned with full force, controlling my fragile mind. So its Your will, not mine, which I will implore. Step by step, day by day, using Your strength to endure. Heal my fear of driving ,get me out past my front door Ease my mind back together, this I now implore. For this is my poem and also my prayer That I balance my life fully, but not OVERCARE.