Long Poems About Illness
#illness
DENV
It was like any autumn afternoon.
High humidity, bright sun. Life bustling as usual.
I was on my way to work when I began to feel the first signs of discomfort. An isolated chill; pins on my bones. A gentle touch was enough to rattle the shield. I couldn’t have known what was to follow. In the middle of my day, the chill had transformed into a full-blown fever. Rising heat. Spiking pain. Every step, a test of strength. It wasn’t my first rodeo so I persisted. Little did I know, that my journey back home was going to introduce me to a new circle of hell.
Crippling pain had...
High humidity, bright sun. Life bustling as usual.
I was on my way to work when I began to feel the first signs of discomfort. An isolated chill; pins on my bones. A gentle touch was enough to rattle the shield. I couldn’t have known what was to follow. In the middle of my day, the chill had transformed into a full-blown fever. Rising heat. Spiking pain. Every step, a test of strength. It wasn’t my first rodeo so I persisted. Little did I know, that my journey back home was going to introduce me to a new circle of hell.
Crippling pain had...
#rain
#memories
#illness
#suffering
#nightmares
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Being AWOL
It's been an interesting couple of weeks.
I've had a bad patch with MH since some time in August. I decided to wait it out for a while to see if the (regular, permanent) medication did its thing, because it's quite an amazing phenomenon to witness when that happens. Things are now going in the right direction. Although I usually rush back to work as soon as I'm allowed to, this term I've chosen to benefit from one school's music lessons policy, and the other school's laidback approach, in order to delay my return for a while. I'm working very part-time this week and will be...
I've had a bad patch with MH since some time in August. I decided to wait it out for a while to see if the (regular, permanent) medication did its thing, because it's quite an amazing phenomenon to witness when that happens. Things are now going in the right direction. Although I usually rush back to work as soon as I'm allowed to, this term I've chosen to benefit from one school's music lessons policy, and the other school's laidback approach, in order to delay my return for a while. I'm working very part-time this week and will be...
#LifeStruggles
#illness
#MentalHealth
#hurt
#disability
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Think About It
Why are babies being born already needing pills
Fish being caught with tumors in their gills
The truth is not full of complications
They are intentionally bent on this devastation
Hidden scientist in hidden labs
Has turned the earth into a junkie, needing rehab
The earth was made by cosmic design
Now these bitches are fucking shit with evil minds
Cross breeding shit that don't naturally breed
An apple isn't an apple, because they're fucking with the seeds
Let's take the food from here and move it over there
If these...
Fish being caught with tumors in their gills
The truth is not full of complications
They are intentionally bent on this devastation
Hidden scientist in hidden labs
Has turned the earth into a junkie, needing rehab
The earth was made by cosmic design
Now these bitches are fucking shit with evil minds
Cross breeding shit that don't naturally breed
An apple isn't an apple, because they're fucking with the seeds
Let's take the food from here and move it over there
If these...
#science
#illness
#humankind
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The chain of pills
I dont want to be on drugs forever
I know my wants don't matter anymore
My blood would kill me the moment I stop
My mind would spiral down to the darkest depths
So I swallow the pills... Of various unlovely colors
Colors of off dark greens, pale browns and sickly egg shell white
They stick to my tongue and cause my face to scrunch up in disgust
I know they make them nasty on purpose
It's so you don't enjoy taking them
But I'll be taking this drug the rest of my life
And who the fuck would take blood thinners for fun
Couldn't...
I know my wants don't matter anymore
My blood would kill me the moment I stop
My mind would spiral down to the darkest depths
So I swallow the pills... Of various unlovely colors
Colors of off dark greens, pale browns and sickly egg shell white
They stick to my tongue and cause my face to scrunch up in disgust
I know they make them nasty on purpose
It's so you don't enjoy taking them
But I'll be taking this drug the rest of my life
And who the fuck would take blood thinners for fun
Couldn't...
#illness
#PTSD
#despair
#disability
#weakness
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Gotcha
#dark
#erotic
#death #illness
#death #illness
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Untitled, a lament
And now,
Tai chi under a leaky roof, and step
And serenity,
And step,
And worry
Pours in, too
Curly cue worm trails
Through my gut
And now breathes its light
Fire into this aged
Flesh, its pores are portico
Eyes,
Its mouths are slattern
Fingers
And its heartache joys
Flower in the midst of its living
Contradictions
Of choice and circumstance
I largely brought upon myself
And the streets are dry tongues
And...
Tai chi under a leaky roof, and step
And serenity,
And step,
And worry
Pours in, too
Curly cue worm trails
Through my gut
And now breathes its light
Fire into this aged
Flesh, its pores are portico
Eyes,
Its mouths are slattern
Fingers
And its heartache joys
Flower in the midst of its living
Contradictions
Of choice and circumstance
I largely brought upon myself
And the streets are dry tongues
And...
#love
#LifeStruggles
#memories
#illness
#LifeCycle
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Pampering The State Of A Fragile Mind
I deem the brain to be the beautiful work of science in progress, our most beneficial aspect of being human, and the center core of our learning capabilities.
The Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of our nervous system as a component to our general well being it is found in humans and all vertebrates and various invertebrate animals.
What is the significant that makes this living organ so valuable to mankind.
When the brain is in its natural habitant of great health. It serves as a sensory gran for numerous...
The Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of our nervous system as a component to our general well being it is found in humans and all vertebrates and various invertebrate animals.
What is the significant that makes this living organ so valuable to mankind.
When the brain is in its natural habitant of great health. It serves as a sensory gran for numerous...
#TruthOfLife
#illness
#MentalHealth
#humankind
#philosophical
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To The Bearded Chap In Bed Six
I'm leaving tomorrow
herewith thoughts for you
to borrow
she's six
-your daughter
while visiting she sang "happy birthday"
as you couldn't sing to her
she mentioned
a bully at school
he sounds like a tool
think you should look into that
Apparently
he broke a bracelet you gave her
she was distraught
at what your reaction would be...
herewith thoughts for you
to borrow
she's six
-your daughter
while visiting she sang "happy birthday"
as you couldn't sing to her
she mentioned
a bully at school
he sounds like a tool
think you should look into that
Apparently
he broke a bracelet you gave her
she was distraught
at what your reaction would be...
#love
#family
#LifeAsAWriter #illness
#LifeAsAWriter #illness
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Terminal
Terminal: (of a disease) predicted to lead to death, especially slowly; [usually] incurable*
Look at the TV screen, tell me what you see
A man, a broken heart, who can’t stand the world?
“He would kill himself, if away she ran”
Lovesick like cancer’s inside his head
(Oh oh)
Look at reality, tell me everything
Are you prepared to die, after a breakup?
Hello my love, suicide awaits
I thought you’d wanna see my friend Death
(Oh oh)
If you say you know all about the end of time,
Have...
Look at the TV screen, tell me what you see
A man, a broken heart, who can’t stand the world?
“He would kill himself, if away she ran”
Lovesick like cancer’s inside his head
(Oh oh)
Look at reality, tell me everything
Are you prepared to die, after a breakup?
Hello my love, suicide awaits
I thought you’d wanna see my friend Death
(Oh oh)
If you say you know all about the end of time,
Have...
#love
#dark
#death #illness
#death #illness
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I LIVE
how tired
or brave
this life
this wave
in turbulence
or happiness
drowned or saved
perpetually
either
up or down
stuck
in whats
now become
this decades long
inner hauntings
silent
limbo
of such complex
existential uncertainties
forced forth
by both
circumstance
and fate
it seems
to long wander
what little
now remains
of this
increasingly
toxic
american wasteland...
or brave
this life
this wave
in turbulence
or happiness
drowned or saved
perpetually
either
up or down
stuck
in whats
now become
this decades long
inner hauntings
silent
limbo
of such complex
existential uncertainties
forced forth
by both
circumstance
and fate
it seems
to long wander
what little
now remains
of this
increasingly
toxic
american wasteland...
#illness
#MentalHealth
#PTSD #disability
#PTSD #disability
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TOOTHLESS GATOR DANCE (10-14-2021, 12:00am, Palm Springs, California)
with my useless
post op
right arm
bound up
in this sling
for at least
another month
here at
the end
of another long day
as exhausted
as i am
so ready for bed
i still have
one more last
struggle ahead
before i can
for the usually
quick simple act
of getting out
of my pants
has recently become
a considerably
more daunting...
post op
right arm
bound up
in this sling
for at least
another month
here at
the end
of another long day
as exhausted
as i am
so ready for bed
i still have
one more last
struggle ahead
before i can
for the usually
quick simple act
of getting out
of my pants
has recently become
a considerably
more daunting...
#night
#monsters
#insomnia
#illness
#weakness
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Myriad of scars
Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast,
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
#strength
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
#determination
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DU Poetry : Long Poems About Illness