I wonder if this trip would bring to surface
Anything from my life that served a purpose
I think about the ride I’ll be on
Curious what sort of memories may spawn.

When you’re forced to be changed
Not by your own want, rather
By meds deranged

It’s difficult to recognize the view
The freedom you love, is not yet there for you

Emotions run rampant, like a child of young years
Some days producing laughter and lately many tears

A clear head is what I have depended on in my life
Now, that’ll be taken away with the medical knife

I’ve now found myself in a peculiar situation
Given a matter of time, to be without my mind
Not merely a miner complication

So, take away my mind, take away the clear head
Give me a body that only wants to lye in bed

You want to test my spirit without logic in hand
You want to see just where it is.. my spirit stands

This is going to be amazing, when it’s all said and done
To learn how I’d live with clouds shading logics sun

I am afraid, but I have to smile
Because it’s going to be so interesting for a while.

I can never say my life has bored me, and certainly not today
For I have now another journey to teach me on my way.

I have climbed aboard a ride and am strapped in tightly
I have my spirit and my prayer
The two bring to me almighty

So, take away from yourself,
what you consider to be your greatest strength
Then see how you’d cope without it for a length

You’ll be given another order of items you can depend on
But, you will have nothing of what you consider has made you strong
Along with your lack, you will also have greater challenge
Day after day, you’ll face a debilitation,
Which you normally would not encounter
Ahhhh…. With this disease.. reconciliation

Our race is so blind to so many things, It makes me sad
We are so spoiled and blindly educated, it makes me mad

So many opportunities to enjoy your day
Live for a day without your mind to kiss the cares away

Then maybe you’ll appreciate the little things in life
Maybe you’ll enjoy your husband or your wife

Maybe you’ll hug your children more, but I doubt the lot will do
Too busy making a dollar to care what they go through.

I make this solemn oath that when this is done..
And I’ve lived without my mind and remembered anyway to kiss my son
That I will kiss him with mind and spirit when the mind does come to pass
I will not take for granted my mind is back alas

Let me remember how I functioned with only the spirit to guide me
And when this is over, Let me love how much I am free.
Not only from disease, but also from the bondage
That I lived believing my mind was the key

Laura