For Stayingstrongfortoday

aysemari

I know you have been having a very hard time of it all
lately. I hope you got some of your energy back and were
able to get off the couch.

I just hope you will find some pleasure in this poem and
that it might even put a smile on your face.

Sending you a hug,
Ayse

Life While-You-Wait

Life While-You-Wait.
Performance without rehearsal.
Body without alterations.
Head without premeditation.

I know nothing of the role I play.
I only know it's mine. I can't exchange it.

I have to guess on the spot
just what this play's all about.

Ill-prepared for the privilege of living,
I can barely keep up with the pace that the action demands.
I improvise, although I loathe improvisation.
I trip at every step over my own ignorance.
I can't conceal my hayseed manners.
My instincts are for happy histrionics.
Stage fright makes excuses for me, which humiliate me more.
Extenuating circumstances strike me as cruel.

Words and impulses you can't take back,
stars you'll never get counted,
your character like a raincoat you button on the run ?
the pitiful results of all this unexpectedness.

If only I could just rehearse one Wednesday in advance,
or repeat a single Thursday that has passed!
But here comes Friday with a script I haven't seen.
Is it fair, I ask
(my voice a little hoarse,
since I couldn't even clear my throat offstage).

You'd be wrong to think that it's just a slapdash quiz
taken in makeshift accommodations. Oh no.
I'm standing on the set and I see how strong it is.
The props are surprisingly precise.
The machine rotating the stage has been around even longer.
The farthest galaxies have been turned on.
Oh no, there's no question, this must be the premiere.
And whatever I do
will become forever what I've done.

~ Wislawa Szymborska ~

Gabe N Abby Mom

I like this! Thanks for
I like this! Thanks for sharing your favorite poet with us.

Hugs,

Linda

VickiSam

Gabe N Abby Mom said:

I like this! Thanks for
I like this! Thanks for sharing your favorite poet with us.

Hugs,

Linda

Ayse .. thank you for this so beautiful
poem .. I hope our dear Sister - Stayingstrong, enjoys this as much as I did.

Stayingstrong - we are here for you. Continued prayers and strength for you,
we wish and pray.

Strength, Courage and Hope for a CURE.

Vicki Sam

stayingstrongfortoday

VickiSam said:

Ayse .. thank you for this so beautiful
poem .. I hope our dear Sister - Stayingstrong, enjoys this as much as I did.

Stayingstrong - we are here for you. Continued prayers and strength for you,
we wish and pray.

Strength, Courage and Hope for a CURE.

Vicki Sam

Thank you
I fell today, it really has my goat. I thought I was beyond this but I just guess not. I was trying to go to Target but I am scared. I tripped over the chair at the therapist office. I could not get up and it took me awhile to get my bearings and stand upright. Why is this happening? I thought I was done with it. I felt like both feet where going to go out on me I am so frustrated. I need support I feel like I get it occasionally. Oh to do away with rads but I have to ask tomorrow. I need shots to my knees or something. Do any of you fall down ?

stayingstrongfortoday

VickiSam said:

Ayse .. thank you for this so beautiful
poem .. I hope our dear Sister - Stayingstrong, enjoys this as much as I did.

Stayingstrong - we are here for you. Continued prayers and strength for you,
we wish and pray.

Strength, Courage and Hope for a CURE.

Vicki Sam

Thank you
I fell today, it really has my goat. I thought I was beyond this but I just guess not. I was trying to go to Target but I am scared. I tripped over the chair at the therapist office. I could not get up and it took me awhile to get my bearings and stand upright. Why is this happening? I thought I was done with it. I felt like both feet where going to go out on me I am so frustrated. I need support I feel like I get it occasionally. Oh to do away with rads but I have to ask tomorrow. I need shots to my knees or something. Do any of you fall down ?