My mask My face My outward appearance People say I look great People say I don’t look sick People say get better soon My mask appears My mask morphs My mask obscures Disease dictates Disease debilitates Disease disintegrates My mask contradicts My mask covers My mask crumbles Pain insidious Pain relentless Pain uninterrupted My maskContinue reading “The Masks of my Life”
Category Archives: Poems
Any Given Moment
Any given moment I feel PAIN “Where?” you ask I touch my head and say All my joints hurt everyday Any given moment I feel TIRED “Don’t you get enough sleep?”, you say I chuckle and say I wake tired every day, I could sleep my entire life away Any given moment I feel DESPAIRContinue reading “Any Given Moment”
Longing for Sleep
Today I wake ache and sigh Today like every other Today I stand pots won’t go away My Life is in slow motion My feet are in the clay My head hurts everyday Pain is my nemesis Pain is my day Pain I can’t betray Hours go by like minutes Hours become seconds Hours tickContinue reading “Longing for Sleep”
Riven Waters 