For the rest of my life I‘ll be scared

Yet I thought that the battle was over

Looking straight ahead new hope I did see

Than it hit me from over my shoulder!

 

I tried desperately for traction to gain

But the force just spun me around

Bits of gravel in every direction

My but landed on the ground!

 

As I tried to rise up I realized

My life would not be the same

My left ankle was now throbbing

With a deep & ominous pain

 

Who dare cause this brutal attack?

I had done nothing wrong

Only out on a hunt for dinosaur tracks

Just inquisitively strolling along

 

What ensued was a seven hour surgery

To put together all that was broken

Then a full year of depending on others

Then another year down…no small token

 

When I look at the scars on my ankle

I’m tempted to think- Oh poor me

Yet I usually can walk with barely a limp

Only few pounds added you see

 

We now have a house on one level

‘Cause quite a problem our old stairs became

Climbing backwards like a 3 leg spider

Thus rendering me quite lame

 

I’m learning to look on the bright side

I could still be in my wheel chair

Could have fallen clean off that slippery huge rock

To my death…  or much more despair!

 

Eloyce M Witzel

2/25/08