Night Time Prayer, Humorous

Now, I try to lay me down to sleep.
On one foot? Hardly, is this a treat!
I see my leg scars laughing at me,
Like some drunken sailor lost at sea!

How did this happen, I ask myself!
Was I thinking of my dead husband,
Ralph?
There is no answer, for one leg Pangie!
This balancing act, hardly poetic, I call,
scroungy.

                12/6/2021
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Dietrich Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 12:10 PM
cute one, Pangie. Always fun to try to make light of the bad in our lives.
Romios Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 1:04 PM
You are right Andrea. Pangie
Wolf Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 6:32 AM
Now stop scrounging around this instant! lol. Without all the pain and inconvenience, this would be cute...
Romios Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 1:06 PM
Ah, the Marquis de Sade speaketh. Here ye, hear ye! Pangie
Ball Avatar
December 6, 2021 at 11:55 PM
Pangie my dear friend my heart goes out to you in your suffering. When I was a young girl boiling water spilled on my right leg and my leg was so badly burned it was paralyzed for a year. Passed grade 5 in the hospital. My teacher was so dedicated he came to the hospital after school every day and brought me my lessons. I had to learn to walk all over again. But you have it worse than I did. Keep the faith my friend and soldier on. You are in my prayers. God Bless, JB
Romios Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 1:03 PM
Nice you had a teacher like that. I was hospitalized in Chicago in Hs for three moths, i had a private tutor. That was cool. There is no bed rest. Right now i have nastered transferring from surface to surface.cannot wait to use left leg. I am no young chick. Makes no difference. Must move, i am so sorry for your burn and paralysis. Oh, Lord. I wish the best for all here, no matter what they have...i know poets who suffer here..lmy blessings to all
Romios Avatar
December 7, 2021 at 12:54 PM
Well, Judy, I differ with you. Medicine is updated. I was at THE best trauma unit for 21 days..no laying about, intense PT and OT daily. Now they come to the house and exercise amd moving are musts. No walking till Ok this Tursday, Burnsand busted legs with bionic knees are horses that require special care.
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