The Pit

http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/163447993021/imagine-that-theres-a-giant-pit-thats-opened-up

I never thought of speech therapy or just the act of writing this way, but an abiding image for me during stroke rehab was me at the bottom of a pit. I could see people and objects of the life I knew and the life I wanted at the top of the pit, but climbing out was long and difficult.