Four–On a Scale of One to Ten
If i should awake and find the pain gone,
shouldn’t i wonder what is going on?
I might wonder, could this be like dying;
feeling no pain without even trying.
I have had a pain in the back so long
i might feel being without it is wrong.
Well, i think i’d like to give it a try
for just a year or two before i die.
This reminds me of what a friend said:
“I don’t really want to get out of bed.”
As long as there he was feeling no pain,
and getting up would bring it back again.
I would rather endure the pain instead
of spending the rest of my life in bed.

Walt Abbott–5-24-2009