– Nashville Individual Counseling: A Poem of Hope and Persistence

Last Updated on June 14, 2023 by Chris Roberts

References “Poetry of Presence.  An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. 2017. Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson”

The difficulty of being alive is that it costs us our full lives.  And most of us, including me, try to cheat life by not giving our full selves it.  This is a poem that reminds us of that reality.

 

 

a song with no end

By: Charles Bukowski

 

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”

 

I know what he

meant

I know what he

wanted:

 

to be completely alive in every moment

in spite of the inevitable.

 

we can’t cheat death but we can make it

work so hard

that when it does take

us

 

it will have known a victory just as

perfect as

ours.(p.62)

 

 

Chris Roberts has been offering counseling services in Nashville, TN since 2009. Chris is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Tennessee.  We currently have openings in our practice if you are looking for an individual or couples therapist in the Nashville area.  We can be reached at chris@nashvillecounselor.net, or (615) 800-9260.