If Only I Could Sleep At Night

If only I could sleep at night
Instead awake I lay
Waking every hour or so
Will sleep all day 
instead I know

Parkinson’s 
I hate you so
Another symptom 
don’t you know
It slowly takes 
complete control
My life 
     my mind  
         my body
So much now 
I cannot do
Parkinson’s 
I do hate you…

But I would not have met
My lovely friends 
My Parkinson’s choir
We sing at concerts 
We sing at care homes
The joy it doth give us
P can’t take away

Must look for the positives
As I go through each day
For P is not me
Smile sweetly and pray
That today be a good one
With blue sky and sun
I will walk by the sea
with Parkinson’s and me…

YIUR CHOICE 2023
Sponsor Brian Strand
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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