Winner

You were a winner the day you were conceived.
From then on, your life has been a series of wins.
Every day you lived became another notch in your record book.
You survived.
Against humongous odds that tried to pull the life from under you even before you were born.
You are a survivor, a winner, a champion for life.

You withstood harmful infections, countless falls and depressing days,
escaped accidents that might have proved fatal,
guided yourself our of tight corners where danger lurked.
You carried on.. an unstoppable force of nature.

Keep on winning, keep on living.
Because within you is the knowledge that nothing is more precious in life than life itself.

Winner.

Writers block

Here on this line, parched and confused
Wrung out, hung to dry, a discarded towel,

I await the showers, the all giving enriching drench.

Begging to bring back my powers,
Bring back the other, the poet.

Let it rain, let me soak abundant in;
Grateful wetness of knowing none is lost.

In the dark shadows I live; corners ghostly,
Hope is never buried in my street as

I await the showers, the all giving enriching drench