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Boxed in

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  I feel boxed in yet again  No words describe The endless, formless pain That inhabits my body Inhibits my movements Takes away my ability Insinuates itself inside my brain And stops all thought And interaction Every train Of thought  Derailed And going up a siding… In need of great repair. 30.6.09

A NEW SONG

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  STONEBIRD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffjzaBi1mA She sits silently waiting Unable to move She stares into the distance Her eyes all throbbing in pain If she had wings Then they’d be closed If she had wings Then they'd be folded She's unable to talk She's unable to focus The pain burns her whole face Her muscles have ceased to function If she had wings Then they’d be closed If she had wings Then they'd be folded Flight is an impossible dream for her A memory of another life time Her grief is indescribable So many untold losses If she had wings Then they’d be closed If she had wings Then they'd be folded (Words and Music Greg Crowhurst 2024) https://stonebird.co.uk

August 8: SEVERE ME, YOUR WORSE NIGHTMARE

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  SEVERE ME, YOUR WORSE NIGHTMARE I want you to think of the worst illness you have ever had Remember how dreadfully ill you felt How everything you normally did suddenly became totally unmanageable Perhaps your head hurt so bad that you had to lay in bed all day to cope Perhaps you felt or were utterly sick and food made you feel even worse Perhaps you were dizzy, off balance and disorientated so that you had to sit or lie down or fall over Perhaps you had an operation and felt weak, groggy and sore. You must have felt out of synch with the world and unable to participate in it like you normally would Now I want you to add pain Pain that spreads all over your body Not just one sort of pain but pain that throbs , pain that burns, pain that itches and screams at you pain that crawls up your skin and invades every millimetre of your body: Your nose, your eyebrows, your eyeballs,your ears, your scalp, your neck, your front, your back,your toes, even the soles of your feet Everything e