Chapter 3: The Human Remedy

Chapter 3: The Human Remedy


when suffering knocks
we open the door
game on
defy don't comply
avoid deny
le grand au revoir
vinegar and sarcasm
victimization
free will my ass
quick run and hide
ward off deflect
pray for mercy
endure
give love
laugh play
blink drink think
medicate fornicate suffocate
escape vanish
wish hope
imagine daydream
refuse it abuse it lose it
shake it make it break it
fake it placate it
rages cages
anger aggression
silence violence
angst
survivor mode
no pain no gain
anguish
we shall overcome
by
doing doing doing doing
until we finally cave and admit that
God willing
death will be our way out
our salvation
hard knocks change locks throw rocks
paralysis sleep
lethargy weakness
surrender
seized
by its forces and furies
under its spell and reign
alienation isolation
condemnation frustration
shut down our operating system
stop freeze
give up give in
indulge in it
satisfy its urges and cravings
fight it push it
challenge it mock it
open a can of whoop ass on it
serve it
charity selflessness
make a difference
remodel revamp
reinvent redefine
remember relive regress
regret
rectify reconcile
press fast forward
persevere
soldier on march on
explore adventure
get spiritual
take sabbaticals
go on walk abouts
silver linings new beginnings
fear creates
our worst case scenarios
fear destroys
our best case scenarios
and tumble tumble we fall
into patterns
habitual responses
temporary control mechanisms
for forces we know we cannot contain
yet try and try we do in vain