February 20, 2017
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Looking Stronger Every Day
You will feel stronger every day
Laying in your sick bed resting
Yet your muscles wither away
The doctor assures you it’s soWatching endless days fade to night
You will feel stronger every day
Is it a wish, a prayer or dream?
But hope fades and life turns to grayThe nurse brings the medicine tray
A bitter drink that tastes like poison
You will feel stronger every day
She states with a smile knowinglyToo weak to eat or force a smile
No pretense of a song that’s gay
Teary eyes as they chant the words
You will feel stronger every dayThis is the first prompt in the 2017 Winter Scavenger Hunt (2017WSH): to use the phrase "stronger every day". I wrote this as a Quatern. Which is a French form of 16 lines in 4 quatrains (that is 4 line stanzas) where each line is 8 syllables. The 1st line of the first quatrain becomes the 2nd line in the second quatrain, 3rd line in the third quatrain and the 4th line in the last quatrain. There are no requirements for rhyme or meter. I did use a rhyme that shifted with the position of the refrain line, just for fun.
I still have a cough that is lingering. My sickness is going on 2 weeks now. I think the medicine did more harm than good. Anyway, unlike the poem I do think I'm getting better every day but it is when the sun goes down that my cough comes to life. I'm calling this the "vampire virus" since at night reappears but during the day I appear to be completely cured...
Comments (4)
Hope you are all better by now.
Nope. I'm heading into week 5 and this cough is hanging on. I'm improving but I sound like a heavy smoker in the morning...
Well done. I like your poem....and your sister is feeling the way you describe but has seen the doctor....staying away from me and staying home from work which means I too have been home....but caught up at hospice last week making enough welcome & bereavement folders and enough of Dr. G's folders of introduction to the hospice & palliative care available in our facility. But am wondering if some of my veterans will be gone when I return.
I went to the doctor too and they told me it was the same virus everyone was getting and to just treat the symptoms.... It is now week 5 and my cough is much improved but I still have a cough at night. Hope she is on the mend and that you can get back to your veterans who probably miss you!!!