Total Joint Replacement

This is my entry for
Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Body’s warranty

Expired at forty-five

Who knows what is next

Recall the kid’s song

Head, shoulders, knees and, yes, toes

Only in reverse

But let’s add one more

Chronic degeneration

X-rayed in right hip

The doctors have said:

“Have you had an injury

That bides a new hip?

You are much too young

But rehab will be a snap

For the same reason”

Now… four months later

I can walk one point five miles

Without discomfort

I descend the stairs

Like the average person

With ease, no distress

A corporal scar

Is the only reminder

Of lost meniscus

I’m truly grateful

For doctors, surgeons, pain pills

And new lease on life