Not sure what’s going on with me
Healthwise this year, that is
Every few months it seems
I’ve been getting this awful cramping
I mean just extremely uncomfortable
Aches and pains in my stomach
Twice before I thought it was a virus
‘A lot of people had that this week’
Friends would say in conversation
One time it had to be food poisoning
From past-use-dated canned fruit juice
Maybe it was that two-week old leftover
Or the ‘mystery’ meat in those nuggets
Now, my last take-out did taste ‘funny’
And I should’ve thrown out those old franks
Nor have drunk that slightly soured milk
Really, I sometimes think, it could even be
Too much of a supposed good thing:
The mishmash of medicines and vitamins
I’ve gulped down to keep me ‘healthy’
In all cases, I push back the thought
Could it be my colon cancer cropping up?
‘Tho I’ve been cured for many years
I’m loath to reenter the maw of Pharma
Controllers of our healthcare system
I have no faith in its corporate doctors
So I go back to mom’s home remedy
A bit of baking soda and water
And writhe impatiently on my bed
Waiting for the pain to just go away
Often I pray to Jehovah, of course
But last night I was determined
To get his attention and emoted
In such heart-rending implorations
Such faith-filled and adoring praise
For his abounding greatness and power
Invoking his magnificent quality of love
I was shamelessly desperate before Jah
And I noted that….if he just wanted to
He could completely heal me
I then lay on my side, knees clinched
And soon heard something like a ‘glerp’
Along with what seemed to me
A gentle churning in my gut
There was another and another
Something inside stirring….being moved
And with each continuing ‘glerp’
A lessening of the pain
Until all of it was gone
And I was again moved to prayer
Now thankfully joyous
Both body and spirit now soothed
I laid bare my grateful heart
And bid Jah a humble goodnight
Before falling into blissful sleep
By Jahgirl
09/3/2017