Poems

Thunder Clashes in My Brain…

Thunder clashes in my brain,
There's a storm at sea in me,
It goes by the name of Severe M.E.

Crash. The first wave hits,
Its the exhaustion,
A word that pales in compare,

My bed has become quicksand,
As my limbs move, it seeps over my body,
Gripping me and holding me hostage,

Pain consumes my being,
Every type you can think of somewhere in my body,
Its a hammer, a knife, a deep ache and a throb,

PEM creeps up to attack from behind,
I dared to do to much,
Now I will suffer an unknown time,

My head pounds,
squeezed like a vice,
My brain rattles inside,

My thoughts float round in an endless despair,
Stuck in time,
I’m confused, but all to aware,

Light pierces my eyes,
Sound echoes around my head,
Scent suffocates

Im trapped in the bars of this cruel disease,
Where restrictions are so tight,
I have so little energy to try to win this fight,

Drowning underwater,
The gasps for breath,
I long for one where I'm free,

Yet the torrent continues,
Every symptom hits like a wall,
I can't continue anymore.

I ache to fade away,
Shut my eyes,
For a better life I pray.

The lights go out,
For me that's relief at last,
My body can attempt to recover,

As even my nightmares are an escape,
I will walk pain free,
Monsters lurk but not the one called ME.

Yet I wake up the same,
Do it all over again the next day,
A cycle I can't break out because,

Thunder clashes in my brain,
There's a storm at sea in me,
It goes by the name of Severe M.E.