A FINGER TO YOU, GREAT MOTHER GODDESS

I read in Runner's World that running with a virus-caused fever

                        could result in death



A finger to you, Great Mother Goddess

For sending me the muscle-pulled leg so that I wouldn't run

                        with a week's weak fever

You knew that I would run but the worthless leg kept me in bed

A finger to you, Great Mother Goddess

For you letting the strength slip back on cat-like tip-toes

Sporadic aches prod me to heal and grow again

A finger to you, Great Mother Goddess

For saving me again.





© Copyright joan joesting 1978