I Survived

Why have I survived so long?

Is there a purpose for my life?

God has had ample opportunity

to remove me from this earth.

But I survived.

A child of three

locked herself in the bathroom

and ate six boxes of Ex-Lax,

seventy two tablets.

"Ummmm, good chocolate!"

Rushed to the hospital,

stomach pumped.

The Doctor said,

She would have been dead by midnight.

But I survived

A sixteen year old girl with Strep Throat,

eight days in the hospital,

sixty-four shots of Penicillin,

ninety-six Aspirin,

gargled Penicillin and

Saline water alternately, every two hours.

But I survived.

A fifty something woman with overactive thyroid

caused by exposure to radio-active Iodine in her teens,

(a down winder)

Drank radio-active Iodine as a cure.

But I survived.

A sixty-plus lady lay on the floor

with a gun pointed at her head

and prayed. Tho terrified, she was unhurt.

But I survived.

Now, a useless old lady,

I can no longer keep my house clean.
MY cooking has gone to pot!

I am exhausted, cranky and tired.

I love my God and my Country.

I love my husband and my son.

I love my grandchildren

and my great grand children.

Is this why . . . I still survive?