Farewell cruel world,
I’m leaving you,
it’s not a cold,
I’ve got the ‘flu.
It may well be,
my final breath,
my nose is red,
I feel like death.
Please don’t mourn,
when I am gone,
go on without me…
soldier on!
© Soldier On… 03.11.2012
By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Photo Credit : http://9laughs.com/go-on-without-me/
Worldly Winds 
Reblogged this on 20 Lines A Day and commented:
Reblog from Worldly Winds – sorry I’ve not been around for a while – I have wimp flu!!
So sorry to hear that you are under the weather. The flu has one positive…it inspired a great poem! Feel better soon. Blessings. 🙂
Hehe Thank you , I am much better 🙂 My family has gone to the cinema and left me – see what mischief I get myself into when I am on my own!!
Photo and poetry was amazing. Thank you.
Thank you – just me having a silly moment! Trying not to take myself too seriously 🙂
Love the poem! Hope you feel better soon! 😀
Aw thank you – I do feel much better! I was just messing around and trying to avoid doing housework 😦
I’m glad you like the poem!
And I’m glad you feel better! 😀
There’s nothing like the ‘flu to make you feel like death warmed over! I will (cough, sniff) try to manage. Somehow… *grin* (Feel better soon!)
Thank you 🙂 I’ve not got ‘flu (thankfully) but I’ve not had such a rough cold as this in ages!
Feeling better each day 🙂
I’m down for the count – I will hang onto your healthy coattails and rise above the germs one of these days, too! 😉
Aw hope you make a speedy recovery. I think sleep and sherry got me through 😉
heh-heh 🙂
Thank you for stopping and following my blog. Take care and feel better.
Ivon
Thank you Ivon.
I’m getting better everyday 😀
It hasn’t hit me yet – rap on wood!
Fingers crossed you escape!!
Sorry, sitting here smiling quietly, super piece, get well eh?
Aw thank you – I am fully recovered 🙂
Just got out of it – wonder if it is because we work so hard, nature forces us to take a break and to stay in bed.
And what a surprise – the world did quite alright in our absence 🙂
Ha ha Eric – yes, I think you may be onto something! Yes, the world continues turning, unfortunately the washing and dirty pots don’t seem to have the decency to sort themselves out! 🙂
Great poet,looking at life through a dark glasses .Hope you are O.K.Thank you for liking my post (Women….).Warm regards.jalal
Thank you – what a lovely metaphor 🙂
Alex
Brilliant, and the cat picture is just perfect!!! 🙂
Aw thank you – I’d seen the picture knocking around on the internet for some time – I thought the two worked perfectly together 🙂
Thank you for reading my blog and “liking ” the article. I enjoy yours as well. Often, I look at the ones listed on the email page and I have read them all, sometimes I look up others from the past. Your photos and writing are nice. I wish I could just “go on” after loosing my son, but its been nearly 7 years, my health soon failed because of his loss, my faith, the closeness with my family, the ability to achieve goals..it hurts. I really, really was blindly doing what I thought God wanted and it blew up -taking my son, and making my life miserable. i have moments, rarely days when I am ok.It seems acting like you’re OK or looking like your don’t care is easier for others to take. I don’t for a minute believe that either one of those is what is in a persons heart-seems they would have no heart if they didn’t feel some of the pain… -I just envy their ability to “box” their pain and go on.IF that is what they are doing. beebeesworld
Hello Beebeesworld
Thank you so much for your openness and courageousness in leaving your comment.
A lot of my writings are based on the loss of my mother and friends. I cannot even begin to imagine how you ‘cope’ after losing a child. I would imagine that it would test the strongest of faiths. I would think the only way is to live hour by hour or minute by minute. I don’t think we fully ever ‘get over’ or ‘come to terms’ with loss; our pain and grief merely becomes different.
A loss such as yours must leave such a chasm that can’t be filled, I think some people are more able to put up a front or hide behind a mask than others.
You are in my thoughts, and thank you so much for your message.
Alex
Smiling…. I’ll recall this the next time I’m sniffling! 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Good to know you’re feeling better, cute poster! lol 🙂
Thank you 🙂
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I do hope you have a speedy recovery.
Oh I’m getting there – just taking plenty of ibuprofen and flu plus! It’s just an annoying head cold – not flu thankfully 🙂
Oh that’s the worst. Feel better.
Thank you – back on form – feeling less zombie and more human again 🙂
Oh no – Does this mean that you’ve got the flu again?
If so – hope you get better soon.
Ugh just an annoying head cold – I’m feeling much healthier and it gave me time to gather some of my work together so it isn’t scattered to the four corners of my house!!
Thanks for dropping by 🙂
AnElephant loves this poem.
But has to tell you it is also not easy to be a large pink pachyderm.
Hhhhrrruuummmmpppphhhhh!!!!
Aw poor pachyderm *hand a MANsize box of tissues and stands well back*
🙂
Loved it- a great way to chase those bad demons away- write about them. Hope you are better!
THANKS for reading my blog- it means so much to me.
WRITE ON!
I’ve enjoyed visiting and reading your blog 🙂
Get well really soon …
I’m fighting fit and back to normal 😀
Thank you 🙂
I think I looked at the wrong post in the wrong year, 364 ago 🙂
Haha – sort of, but I re-posted it as I contracted another cold. I’m always fishing for sympathy 😀
thank you for liking my blog post. i’m sorry i haven’t had more time to visit your blog lately. i’m actually swamped at work. this is especially traumatic as i’m pathologically lazy; my doctor has expressly forbidden me to do any work whatsoever (just kidding). but i shall follow through on the weekend. cheers!
Hehe – I know what you mean – I tend to go in fits and starts – sometimes I’m up to date and other times I am months behind 🙂
Loved this, It made me laugh. You have a wicked sense of humor. Thanks for the chuckles 🙂
Thank you 😀
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