Poems about Illness
#illness
Poems about illness, a collection of poetry dealing with physical illness, the affect on the sufferer and the lives of those close to them. Poems about illness includes poetry about cancer, life limiting injuries and terminal illnesses.
Who am I?
Today my name is?
Damn, I'm really not certain
Deteriorate
Damn, I'm really not certain
Deteriorate
#haiku
#identity
#illness
#memories
#MentalHealth
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Life's a bitch
A husband & wife living in Boston had been married for over 25 years. He faithfully visited his wife in the hospital everyday, where she laid in a coma for several months in 1985 with little hope for recovery. Distraught over the loss of his longtime companion, the husband committed suicide in their home. Hours later, his wife woke up!
#illness
#love
#marriage
#ShortStory
#suicide
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Between Sacred and Profane
i did mean to make you spill
If you are hurt, then you'll heal
Epicurean is a devilish will
There is too much left to enjoy
Away from flesh, lust and pill
What doesn't kill you
Gives you good health
what doesn't hurt you
Drags you in more filth
Spare false words
To a stormy day
And sow today
you shall reap someday
Leave your complains
On your dusty shelf
And be a man for once
The a stoic wolf, dies
Don't pity on your self
...
If you are hurt, then you'll heal
Epicurean is a devilish will
There is too much left to enjoy
Away from flesh, lust and pill
What doesn't kill you
Gives you good health
what doesn't hurt you
Drags you in more filth
Spare false words
To a stormy day
And sow today
you shall reap someday
Leave your complains
On your dusty shelf
And be a man for once
The a stoic wolf, dies
Don't pity on your self
...
#depression
#illness
#SelfHarm
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FALLING EVER FURTHER MORE DEEPLY AWAY (12-13-1995, 3:36a.m., Galveston Island, Texas)
i stay up all night at times
perhaps to steal back time
that i feel is being stolen away from me
i stay up in my head
keeping watch from my inner battlements
looking for the shadow of death
breathlessly lurking all about me here
across and throughout each long night
concealed in invisible layers of so much
mysterious deadly craftiness
stealthily stealing ever closer to me
all the time day and night
it knows i watch in wait for it
as even here now
i listen for the clacking
of it s sneaking bones
trying to slip in ...
perhaps to steal back time
that i feel is being stolen away from me
i stay up in my head
keeping watch from my inner battlements
looking for the shadow of death
breathlessly lurking all about me here
across and throughout each long night
concealed in invisible layers of so much
mysterious deadly craftiness
stealthily stealing ever closer to me
all the time day and night
it knows i watch in wait for it
as even here now
i listen for the clacking
of it s sneaking bones
trying to slip in ...
#anxiety
#insomnia
#illness
#PTSD
#disability
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M'haps the plague? - NaPoWriMo 12
A little tickle on the tonsils,
a slight dry gust in the mouth,
and a heavy ball in the throat,
Gods I hope its not a blasted cold.
I hope it is just the need
to drink more water
and not pestilence's fetid fingers
tickling in testing out my defences
before squatting
as uninvited pest in my head,
Either way,
Summon the forges for a brew
and raise a mug to good health,
Cheers.
a slight dry gust in the mouth,
and a heavy ball in the throat,
Gods I hope its not a blasted cold.
I hope it is just the need
to drink more water
and not pestilence's fetid fingers
tickling in testing out my defences
before squatting
as uninvited pest in my head,
Either way,
Summon the forges for a brew
and raise a mug to good health,
Cheers.
#anxiety
#illness
#NaPoWriMo2024
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PORCH CHIMES THINKING (4-3-1990; North Park, San Diego, California)
i listen to the porch chimes clinking
as a hearty spring wind plays them today
warm and steady
the wind massages everything
as the sun s heat
increases the circulation in all of life around me
stimulating animation in birds bugs and leaves
yet here i sit on couch in shade
perpetually ill for so long now it seems
obsessed with my gradually
ever increasingly fading away
too weak to bear the touch of sun these days
i sit here in fever in fear
sixth day
persistently unravelling ever further still
with all my incessant...
as a hearty spring wind plays them today
warm and steady
the wind massages everything
as the sun s heat
increases the circulation in all of life around me
stimulating animation in birds bugs and leaves
yet here i sit on couch in shade
perpetually ill for so long now it seems
obsessed with my gradually
ever increasingly fading away
too weak to bear the touch of sun these days
i sit here in fever in fear
sixth day
persistently unravelling ever further still
with all my incessant...
#anxiety
#depression
#illness
#disability
#cancer
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Ana Mia
#food
#illness
#MentalHealth #EatingDisorder
#MentalHealth #EatingDisorder
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The Silent Goodbye
The Silent Goodbye
I must leave now, it’s time
I must go, our story’s over
Our fairytale ended
I can’t mend it, I’ve grown colder
The love for you has died
I guess I killed it in a way
A promise I made to myself
And so I cannot stay
The darkness in me spread
I’d say that yeah I hit rock bottom
I fell down my own rabbit hole
The demon’s came, I fought them
And in the end they won
My time is done
It’s time to leave
It hurts to have to let you go
The both of us will grieve
...
I must leave now, it’s time
I must go, our story’s over
Our fairytale ended
I can’t mend it, I’ve grown colder
The love for you has died
I guess I killed it in a way
A promise I made to myself
And so I cannot stay
The darkness in me spread
I’d say that yeah I hit rock bottom
I fell down my own rabbit hole
The demon’s came, I fought them
And in the end they won
My time is done
It’s time to leave
It hurts to have to let you go
The both of us will grieve
...
#sadness
#heartbroken
#death
#illness
#bittersweet
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The Beginning
i wash the blood
off my hands
rinse the spatter
from my face
scrub the clots
from my shoes
after receiving thanks
congratulations for
saving a mans life
now it
sinks in
i didn’t think about myself
didn’t hesitate
didn’t pause to don
gloves mask face shield
reached out instinctively
applied pressure to spurting wound
stopped life from flowing
onto the floor
realizing now
i have been exposed
to a disease that could kill me ...
off my hands
rinse the spatter
from my face
scrub the clots
from my shoes
after receiving thanks
congratulations for
saving a mans life
now it
sinks in
i didn’t think about myself
didn’t hesitate
didn’t pause to don
gloves mask face shield
reached out instinctively
applied pressure to spurting wound
stopped life from flowing
onto the floor
realizing now
i have been exposed
to a disease that could kill me ...
#anxiety
#illness
#PTSD #fear
#PTSD #fear
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A Girl With the Skin of the Moon
I met a young girl with a face of a leper,
as I browsed some travel books at the local store down on the lower east side
I heard her mother was raped on a bed of sand, while watching two people fuck on a bed of sand
she was known as a pillow biter
her bruises were covered with makeup
she wanted revenge
someone took a photograph of the rape
one of the men was in the lower left of the photograph
she described the rape as a porno holocaust
it was a gang bang
one of the men were discovered in a steam bath
this wasn't his first time
he...
as I browsed some travel books at the local store down on the lower east side
I heard her mother was raped on a bed of sand, while watching two people fuck on a bed of sand
she was known as a pillow biter
her bruises were covered with makeup
she wanted revenge
someone took a photograph of the rape
one of the men was in the lower left of the photograph
she described the rape as a porno holocaust
it was a gang bang
one of the men were discovered in a steam bath
this wasn't his first time
he...
#violence
#abuse
#fiction
#ShortStory
#illness
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This boot was made for walking…
Bone graft from my heel
Plates and screws
All so my midfoot can fuse
Don’t let that fool you
I still get around
I’m the sexiest bitch on wheels
And this boot
Seven weeks on my ass
Is over
It’s time to move!
Still got that strut
Not in stilettos
Yet
Plates and screws
All so my midfoot can fuse
Don’t let that fool you
I still get around
I’m the sexiest bitch on wheels
And this boot
Seven weeks on my ass
Is over
It’s time to move!
Still got that strut
Not in stilettos
Yet
#happiness
#hope
#illness
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Life is Good
On my way
To better days
Cast finally off today!
To better days
Cast finally off today!
#happiness
#illness
#freedom
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