I pull myself up
Off my mattress
And stumble
To the bathroom
Hoping for success
I stand
At the toilet
And wait
Afterward
I turn to the medicine cabinet
And grab for some painkillers
To help remove the knife
From the middle of my back
Then, I make my way
Through my freezing apartment
(Stopping only to turn on
the money grubbing heater)
And enter my kitchen
There, my only purpose
Is to get the coffee on
As quickly as possible
While the coffee brews
I push on to my computer
Push the start button
And wait
Once again
Hoping for success
Online
I peruse the news
And my email
10 Americans killed in Iraq
1000th execution in the US
3,000,000 dead from Aids last year
Tibetan monks arrested
For refusing to denounce
The Dalai Lama
Australian hanged in Singapore
For trafficking in heroin
Belgian woman suicide bomber
killed in attack
On American troops in Iraq
And George Bush's new Plan for Victory
My tongue feels
For the abscess
In my mouth
I think of the work hours I lost
And the reprimand I received
Because I misread the letter
Sent to me by my boss
Fear of Alzheimer's
Creeps in
And depression
licks It's hungry lips
At the edges of my mind
Desperately searching
For a pacifying idea
To help pull itself up
My mind conjures Job
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)