chronic illness – Thistle Thoughts

Published Poems at Cereal City Review + Life Update

“I don’t know how to sugarcoat it, so I’m not going to…”

This brings me to an announcement…

“I’ve been working on poetry every chance I get…”

“Wrong”

“mezzogiorno (12 PM)”

These days when breath is hard, when new pains & new ailments nearly overtake me, I’m finding it easier to pray through it.

I’m being as patient as possible

As if the body didn’t have enough foreign invaders to fight off.

I fought for doctors to listen to me.
To believe me.

When too many bad days in a row occur, I start to wonder if this is just how it’s going to be from now on.