Love and Irritations

A Dozen Blessings

Twelve days of Christmas,

Twelve nights of star gazing

Twelve hallelujas

Twelve days for lazing

Around the house

Or anywhere warm

Twelve chances for good mirth

To repair bridges that are worn.

One dozen names too hard to recall

One dozen items on my shopping list

One dozen memory aids to interpret that lung film

Are you starting to catch my drift?

One heap of pills to swallow, they get stuck

Some of these poisons require biological activation

One tastes so bad that I gag and almost wretch

But I persist if they can lead me to salvation

Twelve steps to recover, twelve more and then some

These steps take place mostly inside

My cells cry out for a twelve day vacation

Let's go on a thrill ride!

Before my twelve days are up.