This post inspired by V.J.’s Weekly challenge #47: In-Between
This week, I need your inspiration – where do you go in the in-between? How do you survive it? Or maybe the in-between is ripe with gifts?
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We will call you when the all the lab tests come back…
Pathology could take a while…
You’ll have to wait for the results.
Waiting
Watching
Worrying
Wanting
What If
When Will
What Now
What Then
Why
When
Where
Waiting
The monkey mind churns.
Stealing today’s minutes in-between.
Poof.
Gone.
Helpless jumble of thoughts line up unbidden Bumping into each other Scrambling gibberish Is it five minutes or five hours I can’t stand another secondof….
Turn It Off
Short circuit the loop of lunacy.
Plug in
Three minutes of song.
Shut frantic tired eyes
One-Two.
One-Two-Three-Four.
Volume up.
Way up.
Melodies seep past fear laced neurons
Soothing the gray matter of terror
A foot tapping rhythm takes over…
Three minutes of happy.
ListenHearFeelMoveSingScream
Breathe deep.
Taste hope.
Familiar anthem
From the before.
Temporary respite
Filling the now..
The in-between.
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”…
“Lovely Day”…
or a more recent discovery…
“Brighter Than the Sun”…
…whatever reaches deep.
Repeat.
Hold on.
As the clock keeps ticking
Sunup to Sundown
In-between.
one letter UP ~ diary 2.0 
I can so relate to this post! I wish I had that song playing in my car yesterday!
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Glad you could relate! Thanks 🙂
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You have described it exactly. Thank you for your understanding, and the entertainment.
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Thanks so much!
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Love this response to the prompt…all those w’s!
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Thank you!
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You are welcome
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Tasting hope and feeling a reprieve from one’s endless circle of thoughts is very welcoming. The monkey mind is difficult to soothe at times. I remember waiting in emerg for over twelve hours in limbo, wondering and worrying. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is my go to song to lift my spirits.
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Wow – 12 hours in the ER. That’s rough. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is SUCH a great song – glad it works for you as well :). Thank you for your comment.
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