How Lucky Am I

How Lucky Am I

I wake up every morning and think here we go again

I make myself some breakfast and take pills to ease my pain

I then look in the mirror and the ugly one is there

What will we do today mate or don’t you really care

After 40 years I’m single again, so I only please myself

So I’ve taken up the game of bowls to get me off the shelf

Outdoor or indoor bowls - to me it’s just the same

It’s something I enjoy so much and I don’t have to use my brain

But then I get the comments - you are playing far too much

I appreciate their concern for my pain but at this moment I don’t need a crutch

When I look around me, I realise how lucky I am

No Zimmer frame or invalid chair so is my pain maybe a sham

I can do most of the things that I want and I can handle all my pain

But when I hear the petty moans of some I think get a life you should be ashamed

Just realise how lucky you are with no discomfort at all

Just a brain that complains at will and no hardships that you can recall

There is always someone worse off than you – in many many ways

Perhaps a few weeks in their shoes then would change what you have to say

Then perhaps those moans would go away and you would finally see

That the life you lead is wished by those who know it can never be.

WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE AROUND ME I REALISE JUST HOW LUCKY I AM!!