The Quiet Spirit (Challenge Winner)

Challenge from Drgonlady : The most difficult obstacle yoou've had to confront The Quiet Spirit Who is this quiet spirit who has come into my world Creeping slowly towards me as his mysterious traits unfurl Discourteously intruding without asking to come in With no consideration for the person who’s within He walks in silent footsteps, both steadfast and precise And slyly interrupts the daily rhythm of my life He deliberately alters my step, my gait, my hand And manifests himself in ways that I can’t understand But the ruinous disease failed to realize from the start    That he may control my movements, but he can’t control my heart And that, my friends, is why I have come to realize That his destructive nature will not be my demise In fact I think I’ll thank him for the favors he has shown He forced me to consider certain failures of my own He made me realize my life was full of useless stress And revealed to me the treasures with which I’m truly blessed He opened up the sky to me, and shown a light inside The window of my soul to view convictions that I hide My heart feels strangely more content in very special ways I savor every moment now of every single day I’ve discovered things about myself which never came to light Expressing thoughts for me had been a constant losing fight So timid and misunderstood, I always felt apart And now I feel the urgency to open up my heart Rarely a letter did I write, seldom a note I sent So difficult it was for me to say just what I meant But suddenly poetry came flowing from my pen And thus this verse to tell the world how truly blessed I am (on Parkinson's Disease) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written February 11th, 2002 © on Feb 10 2002 08:52 PM PST   0 • 12