You Have To Learn To Live With What You Have Poem by Shalom Freedman

You have to learn to live with what you have
You will have pain for the rest of your life
You have to learn
To not focus on it
To let it just be there
To put your mind your heart your body
In other things
You have to learn to accept
That you will never be completely alright again
This is the way it is
An old man now
Try to make it out with dignity to the end
Just do the things you love to do best
Let the pain be there
You go on with other things on your mind
Most of the time.