Terry Bradshaw

May 1

Terry Bradshaw

When someone wants to take the easy way out I condemn them for wanting ease and fail to register that they want out. I hear a whine when in fact it’s a cry. A challenge is rarely passed up by the able bodied, but must be foregone by the injured. Carried from the field is no personal victory, not a goal for sure. When I would rather watch than play I need to check for wounds not inflict them. It is not natural for me to sit in the stands, but accusation is never the way to get me on the field. Suit up when I’m whole and hide when I’m not. Absence is a fallback position for the fallen; I have to help myself to get back up.

Recognize friends as art

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PIGS

Talking to a chrysalis about flight

Is like talking to a fetus about dry land.

Descriptions of future events

And possibility are lost in the translation.

To the uninitiated these realities sound like gibberish

And flight of fancy or foolish dogma

Yet I am drawn to talk of these things

Imagine and describe them.

I am changed by this procedure

I am transformed in the details

When I can accurately depict it

I am taking the stride into living it

I am my own pig

I have taught myself to sing

And have wasted no time at all.