S L E

   
     
Systemic    
     
the root      
entrance      
fading cells of white    
tissues    
catching a blood train    
to failiure in the joints    
     
submissive muscles    
give way to    
the attack of the    
self-sick-immunity    
in an idol that      
leaves winning      
survivor    
     
bloodied    
and met in dark      
muddy pools    
of      
auto-matic    
bacteria    
eating scars    
in self war      
     
guns blasting, bombs falling    
trenches filled    
flaring tyrades of    
     
Lupus    
     
welts burn up    
in breathless anxiety    
a depressing sword    
burns through    
the chest    
     
fielding scars      
in rash    
fluttering over    
epidermal skin    
scales    
     
as ulcers fill the      
tongue    
     
while fatigue    
stimulates fever    
hidden in      
muscle spasms    
and      
sleepless      
breaths    
     
ongoing      
paralysis    
     
legs sleeping in    
     
Erythematosus    
     
flares in the    
unexpected    
     
waking in the un-warned    
and holding      
death in      
     
a cure    
non-existent    
     
yet hidden in the sleep    
of the depressive    
world    
     
of un-told    
     
pain    
     
     
relief found in the mundane    
words    
soaking    
waterfalls    
     
lifeless      
yet domininant    
     
nothing sexy    
in the genetic    
nor the      
undiagnosed history    
at the gates      
     
of HELL    
     
while the bucket    
he carries    
is a book of    
miss diagnosis    
and bad    
 prescriptions    
     
an untold story unfolding    
in scans    
bloodcounts    
and plastic urine    
     
jars    
     
     
[·]