Bat Again

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs

Bat Again

I played baseball when I was nine.

I was pretty good … at times.

Sometimes I struck out.

Sometimes I hit a double.

And I got to bat again.

In one game, I got hit in the head.

I got to bat again.

In another I hit two homeruns.

I was a hero that night, and I

got to bat some more.

In other games of life

I made a few good plays

and I bobbled a few fly balls,

and life kept putting me up to bat.

And now I am old,

My muscles have lost their tone,

My joints are stiff.

Even two weeks ago my heart

almost stopped working.

I wondered if I would ever bat again.

My doctor said “Yes, if we do this and that,

And if you do those other things,

Yes, you can bat again.”

And so, I choose to bat gain.

I choose to eat differently,

Follow a regime,

Face the surgery

to repair the damage.

I want to bat again.

I have books to write,

blogs to post.

Podcasts to record,

and memories to make

with my wife ... trips to take,

 and family fun times.

I think I have about twenty

or thirty more Christmases

left in me.

I want to keep batting.

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An Ode to What's Possible

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs

“That thing is impossible” they say.

And do we believe, just because they say?

How many times have we seen

the impossible made possible?

“It always seems impossible

until it’s done.”

Nelson Mandela said that.

Napoleon said “the word impossible

is not in my dictionary.”

Perhaps it means you haven’t found

the solution yet.  Perhaps.

Remember Thomas Carlyle?

He said “Every noble work

is at first impossible.”

And Alexander the Great added,

“There is nothing impossible to him

who will try.”

Walt Disney knew a thing or two

about impossible.  He said,

It’s kind of fun to do

the impossible.”

Alice, when wandering 

Wonder Land noted this,

Why sometimes, I’ve believed 

as many as six 

impossible things 

before breakfast

And so, we believe.

We believe in the impossible.

That’s what makes it possible.

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Take Your Turn

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs

You don’t need
someone’s permission,
or a hall pass,
or a certification
to take your turn.

You just take it.

You don’t need
special clothes,
a theme song,
or the moon and stars
in their proper order
to take your turn.

You just take it.

We take our turn
when we are ready,
and sometimes …
when we are not.
We just step up
and take our turn.

We seize the moment,
we grasp the brass ring
and we do the thing.

We take our turn.

And sometimes
We stand in amazement
at how our turn
takes up places.

New and exciting places,
adventures, road trips,
mountain tops, scenic sea views.

I’m standing in line
ready to take my turn.

Come stand beside me.

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