Multi-tasking

MULTI-TASKING.



I used to write my poetry

before I had this ostomy.

Then, other things I could eschew

when that was all I had to do.



But when my operation came

For me it didn’t seem the same.

I felt so sorry for myself

my writing pad stayed on the shelf.



The ostomy took centre-stage

with nothing written on the page.

My motivation went downhill

for all the time that I was ill.



But it didn’t take too long

before I felt that this was wrong.

Then my active mind was asking

why was I not multi-tasking?



It’s not like this was new to me

for that was how I used to be

and if I multi-tasked before

I could multi-task some more.



So at myself I took a look

and off the shelf came my notebook

and then I wrote my poetry

whist tending to my ostomy.



But I’m convinced that the best bit

emerged with all the rest of it.

I realised that I could do

everything that I used to.



All of my negativity

made way for creativity.

So now I say when people ask

this is because I multi-task.



B. Withers 2014

LOL, great job. And pretty darn quick. You must be a super multi tasker!

Hello Mrs A. Nowadays I've a need to capture the concept in the moment that it happens, otherwise I forget what the subject was and what I wanted to say about it. Sometimes that happens even in the middle of writing it. Oh! the joys of getting old!Best wishesBill