A Little Bit Free

Just a Little Bit Free I feel that I need to get out to walk by the oak and pine trees breathe fresh air and. see young creatures climb pines and fences — roam all about I feel the need to have the sun warm my bones, my tendons my veins I want to hear people laugh and walk with their dogs out to the park throw balls have picnics have fun I want to say hello and talk For I know they have been polite watching me now for 2 years trips to doctors, to surgery with a cap and thin hair, with a cane taking walks They ask me how I am and I smile and say good now a year later they appear to believe me, a large breath escapes now its only every 4 months I go for an exam Still the doctors tell me to be careful to stay away from children with their sneezes and coughs A lonely prescription, but I do have my dogs Another MRI and dyes injected another Congressman gone from the same disease, so sad but his was a 4 and I am a stage 3. still every blood lab is collected, every cell inspected This weekend we hope to see a play under the pine trees I will get tired and my bones and spine will ache, my brain will need a quiet rest Cancer of the brain is not an easy thing to fight off, its tough, unkind though now it could be a year or possibly more the chemo/radiation is cruel, but for this month I feel good enough to allow me to be just a little bit alive —a little bit free