Present Attention Is Needed

Ashley Gravett
1 min readOct 24, 2017

PAIN

Hello old friend,

we are more acquainted than I prefer, but here you are again

and me with a homemade sling made from a scarf to hold my arm still, to hold the ice pack on my shoulder

pain, i have heard is an acronym- present attention is needed

you have my present attention, but it seems that my attention was needed before i pulled this muscle

before i decided i am strong enough to do anything, even carry 60 lbs of groceries weighted on one shoulder up three flights of stairs

Pain reminds me to slow down, take the extra trips, carry less, breathe more

but not too deeply right now, that hurts.

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Ashley Gravett
Ashley Gravett

Written by Ashley Gravett

Writer, dork, consumer of words, and lover of all things rainbow.

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