GO LIVE AND LOVE

Make no mistake, as I once did, that you
must be healthy or "perfect" to be loved.
In a few things, I get to be there
ahead of you. My turn with advice.

We're all healthy, and just maybe
feeling a bit BAD, until someone
comes along in a lab coat
and tells us that we are very ill.

So who is this sterile someone
to take our lives and happiness away?
You are a writer, my dear friend.
Writer yourself into something better.

The lab coat guy can never imagine
the beach you've arrived at in paragraph
with extravagant goodies in tow.
Tell him he can't come. No invitation...

Ahem! There you go! No more tailspin.
You have some control after all.
Laugh all the way to the sterile pharmacy,
and then out into the dirty parking lot.

Go live and love just like you did
before some guy in extra starched whites
tells you something that makes you think
you can't still do these things.

Stare at him like the ex- at final signing,
or the guy who dented your favorite car.
He is no god. Maybe he, too, will soon
be facing his own guy in a white lab coat.

(c) 2003 Rennie Lorca