I feel I am Choosing Wisely

I have a little malady; it feels like leprosy or maybe it just looks like it The recipient of chicken pox twice, slap cheek and now shingles, I could spend my life being irritated, angry, lamenting my fate They have not lasted five days, they have lasted five years One day I said let’s ignore them, maybe they will go away They do not go away, and I sit on them, on my left side So, you can imagine this is truly comfortable. Not! We tried seven remedies; I cannot take a shingles shot until they go away. My doctor said “they may never go away; this was the worst-case I had ever seen.” Okay, if we are going to live together shingles, then I will to do a lot better job of ignoring you. I can throw salve on you sometimes, but other than that, you are not wasting my time. I choose poetry, I choose art, I choose cartooning. I choose my dogs. You take very little of my mind or my thoughts. My choice, my outlook, my attitude. I am choosing wisely.