Mnemonics

Brieanna Cross, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, MS2

My mind struggles
to grasp at the strands of information swirling around me.
I follow them like an old telephone cord
All wrapped around itself,
But still connected.
I am chasing mnemonics in my mind
Playing odds on my memory cards
and praying it all doesn't spill out
if I lie on my side.
I am running around my life with to do lists miles long
and no end in sight.
I wonder where is my mnemonic for life?
Perhaps I need to create a reminder
that strings together the background.
A place where the disease and their buzzwords
can rest their pretty (or ugly?) little heads.
A place where I can get lost in the folds.
Where I can remember that back there
on the back drop
is the Health
Smiling
Loving
and laughing as I struggle to memorize
frantically
all the faces of imperfection.
My mnemonic for Life
has Health at the very top.
No wait, that is not right. For life has no H in sight.
But what if my mnemonic
reminded me of what health really is--
Love
Infinitely
Filling
Everything.