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THE THANK YOU NOTE
MAJOR GUILT
RECOVERED
TEEN YEARS
GUILT RELIEF
YOUR BIRTHDAY
CHRONIC RAGE
COPING MECHANISM
THE LITTLE THINGS
TICKETS REMEMBERED
STRESS DEFINED
PURPLE FLOWERS
LIFE'S VIEW
THE SUPPORT GROUP
THE DOCTORS
ASSESSING THE MOMENT
THE MEANING OF LIFE
REMINDER
MISCONCEPTION
TO DARA
CROHN'S POEMS
CHRONIC RAGE
Everyday
it's there
Everyday
Everyday
Every night
it's there
a piranha
swimming in your guts
dinning on intestine walls
It's nasty eyes
unaware of sun or moon
Unaware it's time to sleep
But finally you do
As the morning light
seeps under your eyelids
you take assessment
It's there
That constant pain
still constant
and now you've said
"Good Morning"
to it
You wonder
if you hadn't looked for it
would it be there now?
Are you doing this?
Have you welcomed it?
In some ways
it's like a friend
it's come so often
No
Nothing in you wanted this
No one invited it
Not even past life karma
deserves such punishment
No torturer could plan such misery
Your own intestines
chewing up themselves
chewing up your daytime
chewing up your night
chewing up your life.
CHRONIC RAGE
Everyday
it's there
Everyday
Everyday
Every night
it's there
a piranha
swimming in your guts
dinning on intestine walls
It's nasty eyes
unaware of sun or moon
Unaware it's time to sleep
But finally you do
As the morning light
seeps under your eyelids
you take assessment
It's there
That constant pain
still constant
and now you've said
"Good Morning"
to it
You wonder
if you hadn't looked for it
would it be there now?
Are you doing this?
Have you welcomed it?
In some ways
it's like a friend
it's come so often
No
Nothing in you wanted this
No one invited it
Not even past life karma
deserves such punishment
No torturer could plan such misery
Your own intestines
chewing up themselves
chewing up your daytime
chewing up your night
chewing up your life.
Copyright 1996 - 2005 Arlyn Serber