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, feel sunlight, smell coffee, I see family, and friends, Amazing blessings.</p><p id="4487">We just call it “letters” “M” and “S”, 2 of the 26 English letters. They only get as much power as you give them. Leg pain, tiredness, all the rest? You don’t faze me</p><figure id="e785"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by the author</figcaption></figure><p id="c8da">There is no real past When

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I did not have MS No future, just now.</p><p id="c61b">Yesterday’s issues A distant faint memory Hear the truck outside?</p><p id="58f1">Outside the wind blows So gently, trees sway. I think Of nothing at all.</p><p id="5102">If my body works at all, I still feel grateful To hear a friend’s laugh</p><p id="7d71">Pain is just info The secret is not to run Straight to aversion</p><p id="c29b">MS doesn’t get A vote in how sad or Happy I feel today.</p></article></body>

Ode to Multiple Sclerosis

Thankful every day for my “illness”

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Who can predict the future? I vaguely remember the past. I’m only sure about right now. This moment, and the next.

Just a breath and a look around. I hear music, feel sunlight, smell coffee, I see family, and friends, Amazing blessings.

We just call it “letters” “M” and “S”, 2 of the 26 English letters. They only get as much power as you give them. Leg pain, tiredness, all the rest? You don’t faze me

Photo by the author

There is no real past When I did not have MS No future, just now.

Yesterday’s issues A distant faint memory Hear the truck outside?

Outside the wind blows So gently, trees sway. I think Of nothing at all.

If my body works at all, I still feel grateful To hear a friend’s laugh

Pain is just info The secret is not to run Straight to aversion

MS doesn’t get A vote in how sad or Happy I feel today.

Poetry
Multiple Sclerosis
Mindfulness
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