Calming My Pain

Inspired by my friend's words ......

My friend Bart wrote this :

Distraction to help cope with pain: Creating a September afternoon on a lake. Not going to go into every detail here but you create the boat. You feel the texture of the seat. The gentle rocking. The lake holding you up. The surface tension of the water and the coolness underneath. The singing of the birds and bugs. The soft rustle of leaves. The wind with whispers of summer and clarity of fall. You can taste the metal in the air from the seats of the boat along with the brine of the lake. You take these static images, memories and a million more then you start to animate them. For me it's a good technique to help with pain.

When the pain hits you

Retreat into a weird world you do

Pain can be different and off the scale

Unbearable but I still live to tell the tale

So the world you retreat to is in your mind

Helps to relive peaceful memories from your mind

So have some lined

So to self you can be kind

Today’s choice is a September afternoon on a lake

You can take memory and a universe create

A boat is bobbing in the water

Seated in there listening to the lapping of water

Feel the texture of the seat

Gentle rocking of the water you cannot beat

The water cradles the boat

Leaving you happily to float

The birds are chirping and singing

The flies and insects are also buzzing

The sun is gentle as the afternoon advances

Sparkle of light on water slowly fades

The wind with whispers of summer and clarity of fall

The soft rustle of leaves that I clearly recall

The smell of moist earth and fading flowers

Will remain into the small hours

My mind is calm

The memory a soothing balm