Achievements

              So what's your best achievement,

          Nigh four decades have passed,

          The thing that makes you oh so proud,

          To make your name to last?

          For some it's their accomplishments

          Or academic gain,

          Still others, the career they chose,

          Which kept you all so sane.

          Perhaps it's working hard and sore,

          Which enabled you to thrive,

          While paying in, so you could gain

          That "Freedom fifty five".

          For me, it's nothing that I did

          That I am pleased to say,

          But something that was done TO me

          Which makes me proud today.

         The syndrome that I had from birth,

         Preventing living full,

         Some of you may have witnessed it

         But thought I was a fool.

         I couldn't be a teacher

         While standing 'top the class

         If I took ill those pupils would

         Have thought I was an ass.

         A fireman, nurse, policeman

         Were doors slammed in my face,

         So why get a diploma

         To watch them, me abase?

         So trudging on, I laboured sore,

         Though suff'ring woe and grief,

         Wondering if there was in sight

         A sign of some relief.

         The greatest moment in my life

         Now twenty two years free,

         I was anaesthetised for my

         Prefrontal lobotomy.

         For thirty two long tiring years

         Those seizures I endured,

         Preventing me from 'living'

         BUT......... I'm thrilled that I've been cured.

         Ten hours under the scalpel,

         But I came through, with prayer,

         Then weaning off the mass of pills

         I'd had, - it seems, for e'er.

         I have the dent upon my skull

         At present, hid by hair

         But should that fall I'll not be 'shamed

         To tell why it is there.

         So YES, it's proved, I HAVE a brain

         They found it, I'll confess,

         But hyphen is a MUST for this,

         When I say, I'm brain - less.