The Poems of David Garlick
In my ICU cocoon I rest alone in solitary peace and quiet. I think of little but the fact that many things are left unsaid; reminded that a silent tongue can hurt a loved one just as much as saying something hurtful can. The tubes that festoon, lights that blink and monitors with […]
I’m not ill any more, perhaps I never was! Why then do I feel so frail? I used to do so much. Now I’m molly coddled into doing very little. I sit and read a lot. A glass man, fragile – but not convinced – that I will break. Yet I fear the […]
Mixing concrete in a barrow, bending and straining, I felt the dragon strike deep into my chest- grabbing my aching heart, squeezing, squeezing. The pain like a sun burst flared in all directions. I recognized my foe, stared mortality in the eye. Damn! I thought, this fence post won’t be set. I sat down […]
Lets celebrate our lives. The places we have seen, the happy times with family, the things that we have done. Those special memories, the pet we loved so well, the cake that rose, the flower that bloomed, the stories that we tell. Lets celebrate our friends, some here some in our past. Their kindness […]