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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Flipping Coins

Today I functioned as a nurse.
Tomorrow the coin will be flipped.

No longer can I just believe in me.
Belief will be passed to a physician’s fine skills.

My eyes have grown cloudy with cataract,
only the right one to be cleared tomorrow.

In weeks three or four, the left eye takes a turn
to complete cloudy corneal removal.

Routines of pool exercise and downward yoga poses
will shift while knitting and healing occurs.

Belief and confidence passed to physician and nurses,
belief in my changeability to accept their ministrations.

Today I functioned as a nurse.
Tomorrow the coin will be flipped.

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
~ Nikos Kazantzakis

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