Once again it has come to my attention
that I need revisions to my life.
Oh, this life has been tweaked
so many times
although, I need another fine-tuning.
Scary as it seems,
I need to simplify once again.
I have the career path straightened
now, it’s time to shed the weight
of another huge and lovely skin;
the weight of my Mother’s hard work
and all of my devotion to a single
notion that I may keep it forever.
Even after desperately talking myself into staying
a thousand times over the years,
I have always been keenly aware
when I have over stayed my welcome.
I know deep inside
that all good and sturdy trees weather storms;
and yet they also throw off seedlings
to ensure their survival for years to come.
They too become vulnerable to change
and an untiring strong wind can alter their original
spot of planting, as it takes them down
on one blustery night.
I’m ready to be taken down and throw
off a seedling in another direction.
I’m ready to move on and build
a new dream one of better financial stability
for the long haul.
I’m ready for more simplicity in my life.
This one has not been serving me well
for a long time. I have refused to believe
it but there is no way to escape it now.
I am resolved on this delicate and timely
revision.
Let the Edit begin.
About www.recoveryofthemind.com
Live Life so you never have to say, “I should have.”
I have lived like this, because at an early age I was brutally beaten and kidnapped while walking to school and acquired a traumatic head injury with a seizure disorder and a lifetime of recovery. I live despite what everyone believed I would become. You would not know any of my struggles or what I have overcome and face daily, if you met me on the street or spoke to me for any amount of time. People with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) are mostly anonymous. You can rarely tell that anything has happened to them or that they may need extra support or patience, they are strong, intelligent, kind people, living in all shapes, sizes, colors, and sexual orientation, out there defying the odds daily. Their lives often have been turned upside down by their head injury and they are seeking or had to find a new normal and themselves all over again. I hope to be one voice that speaks out for them/us in a World that is not listening, understanding, or providing much in the way of assistance to people with TBI when we are in need.
As a writer who observes all people and works with people with disabilities for the past forty plus years, I have noticed that those with TBI are often misunderstood and some of the most underfunded among disability groups in the country, and I want to help change this.
I hope to inspire people to live well against all odds and those odds are treacherous mountains to climb, but I am here to say you can summit them!
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