Short Paralytic Poems

Healing, making well, curing, relating to a paralytic, exorcising demons
MLK laid the path for black rights and equality  
Was Jesus social issue not the ill and disabled, health and medicine?...

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Elvis-worm
Eternity comes when you’re out of breath,
breathless paralytic
 your stone deaf,
when the funny stroke is due,
your body melting too,
all part of the deef n deaf,
an overheated you,
is left, the flaccid blue,
Elvis worm the building left,
Bugger, 
No diddle-dum diddly too,
Bereft,
bay-lou…
Don...

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Memories

If one could store them
in the attic without stir 
and turn to other things,

to picking fruit, perhaps,
or seeding it, one could afford
the dalliance of an hour

for one would have the years
one knows will not be those
whose paralytic youth has just begun,

the years whose summer plea
for laughter and for kiss 
somersault the hair 

and scimitar the smile: the years
the sun, the moon, the stars
can never order stop.


Donal Mahoney...

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What is the greater miracle:
to rise and walk,
or be forgiven of our sin?
To think the first
is to be paralyzed
by pride embedded deep within.
For are we not
on balance good,
deserving of an honored place?
With crippled minds,
and eyes too blind,
we fail to apprehend our desperate need for grace.
But lesser points to greater,
the broken is restored,
and when we grasp this sweet shalom,
we, like the paralytic, rise,
pick up our bed,
and head in joy towards home....

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