Routine messages, ever-increasing headache;
you say your friend suffers cancer pain in the
brain – I think about alleviating things, music,
funny films, books ready if it worsens – works
for me when the allergy causes such pain I
cannot think
Watching my favourite movie, reading a book
I remember from childhood, laughing out loud,
a stimulating subject lifts the pain – amazingly,
thinking of ideas for your friend my headache
eases, suddenly I’m safe in the cathedral
of my mind where thoughts soar free
A quiet happiness suffuses my being; so your
friend’s suffering gave me opportunity to offer
solutions, her illness already serves an un-
expected purpose – if she thinks about pain’s
advantages, she might find such too, just like
I did thinking about the allergy
Realising without it I would never have tried to
write, translating other people’s words would
have been quite enough
For Ronel Oreilly and her friend Rina Marx
4 July 2013
you say your friend suffers cancer pain in the
brain – I think about alleviating things, music,
funny films, books ready if it worsens – works
for me when the allergy causes such pain I
cannot think
Watching my favourite movie, reading a book
I remember from childhood, laughing out loud,
a stimulating subject lifts the pain – amazingly,
thinking of ideas for your friend my headache
eases, suddenly I’m safe in the cathedral
of my mind where thoughts soar free
A quiet happiness suffuses my being; so your
friend’s suffering gave me opportunity to offer
solutions, her illness already serves an un-
expected purpose – if she thinks about pain’s
advantages, she might find such too, just like
I did thinking about the allergy
Realising without it I would never have tried to
write, translating other people’s words would
have been quite enough
For Ronel Oreilly and her friend Rina Marx
4 July 2013
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