DEMOTIVATE.
Certain things can demotivate
and thus, eventually, create
a situation where someone
feels their life is almost done.
Bullies often play on this
to make their victims come amiss
by bullying and being vile,
so victims think they’re not worthwhile
But other things can be as bad
to undermine and make folks sad
which leads to lack of interest
or a desire to do one’s best.
Chronic illness can find a way
to undermine and thus waylay,
by constantly, and blow by blow,
usurp a person’s up and go.
I know this from experience
of illness and its permanence
for it can be a massive drag
to cart about a stoma bag.
These stoma bags are just an aid
a symbol of a price that’s paid
for chronic conditions of the past
which hopefully are done at last.
Yet they will still remind us and
sometimes they get the upper-hand
by dragging down resilience
and weakening our self-defence.
We sometimes pause and ponder on
whether life is sin qua non, (necessary)
or whether to capitulate
with pressures that demotivate.
B. Withers 2023
