With Friends Like These…

There is no truer friend than Pain,
to stay with you in thick and thin,
to leave but then return againโ€”
no other is more genuine.


Iโ€™ve been in constant pain for about six weeks now, and itโ€™s getting worse. It’s time to write another Dribble, and I usually write about whatโ€™s on my mind at the time. At the moment pain is on my mind, but the Dribble is supposed to be light, if not down right humorous. So I did my best to bring some levity to a reality of life that we all share to one degree or another. Iโ€™ve always loved the line from The Princess Bride: โ€œLife is pain, Highness.โ€ Itโ€™s true. Itโ€™s true.

Copyright ยฉ 2021 Abigail Gronway – All Rights Reserved

Scansion:
Dribble
Name derived from the name of the micro-fiction form โ€œDrabble,โ€ which is a story consisting of exactly 100 words. A Dribble is a poem consisting of exactly 100 letters (not charactersโ€”spaces and punctuation are not counted) in four lines.
Because of the brevity of the poem, the title is integral to the poem (though not included in the count).
Usually humorous
Rhyme scheme: abab


Photo taken in Milton, FL, 2018

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