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Falling Down

I’d rather
Write
Of something else today
Many other things
Though this presses

Not so much
An occasion
In the wide world
Though in a world of one
And a few more
It matters
I suppose

We say
That each one matters
And
Well
I guess that means
To take it home sometimes

And so I fell
Last night
The kind of fall
Heart clients aren’t supposed
To fall
Unless that means that something’s
Wrong

And it was in that
I got dizzy
Then saw stars
Then dropped to the floor
With a minor crash
Of me

And I stayed there for a while
Then got up
Certainly
Slowly
Moving slowly for the rest
Of the night

I lay down early
And I think today is
Saturday

And
Well
My heart beat through it all
As well as ever

Of course
I’m glad
And grateful

Regarding medication
And the other things I know
Such as insomnia
Tinnitus
Sinus troubles
Especially through
The heatwave
Plus
The stress I feel
(a military name for that)
From trauma
Going back
Some years

Well
We’ll have to talk about all this
The medical folk and I
And you could pray for me
And take the narrative along
Should
You know someone
Who has
Such an episode
For any of these reasons
Or one’s unique
Situation

I’m
Still slow
This morning
(or should be)
But here
Having persistence
Some feistiness
Even some orneriness
In
This way

CLC


Photo by Marcus Dall Col on Unsplash
[not that I’m a flower on the water—it’s a pleasant image, artfully photographed, is all]