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.
Death March
Cold light fills my room
Hurting my eyes with the clinical glare
The white coats and candy stripes flash by my open door
Seeming deaf to my calls for simple compassion
And companions to pass the time with
None will say what I feel in my bones
My time is running short and since they can't help me
They ignore me instead
My breath runs short in my lungs
As hard to breathe out as in
And my body is growing tired from the efforts
And still I feel the urge to smoke
What a fool I was
And am
The man in the bed across the room ...
Hurting my eyes with the clinical glare
The white coats and candy stripes flash by my open door
Seeming deaf to my calls for simple compassion
And companions to pass the time with
None will say what I feel in my bones
My time is running short and since they can't help me
They ignore me instead
My breath runs short in my lungs
As hard to breathe out as in
And my body is growing tired from the efforts
And still I feel the urge to smoke
What a fool I was
And am
The man in the bed across the room ...
#illness
#vulnerability
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And That's How Life Goes
December 25, 2020
It’s Christmas and I thought I would see Xavier today. Maybe I’m assuming too much, but I thought after everything he’s said about our history and how often we talk, that I would see him on the holiday. I’ve been so happy since he’s come back in my life, and I figured he would want to see me as much as I want to see him. It didn’t quite work out that way.
I called him after I got home from Rene’s. I was concerned because he said he spent the day alone. He just made himself dinner and was logging onto Facebook to catch up with some of his travel friends....
It’s Christmas and I thought I would see Xavier today. Maybe I’m assuming too much, but I thought after everything he’s said about our history and how often we talk, that I would see him on the holiday. I’ve been so happy since he’s come back in my life, and I figured he would want to see me as much as I want to see him. It didn’t quite work out that way.
I called him after I got home from Rene’s. I was concerned because he said he spent the day alone. He just made himself dinner and was logging onto Facebook to catch up with some of his travel friends....
#abuse
#memories
#illness
#MentalHealth
#narrative
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Time to increase the dosage.
I'm out with the gout
all in my knee.
So woe is me,
without a doubt,
with my old right hip grousing about
in anatomic solidarity.
But I've some tricksy pills, ya see,
with an anti inflammation clout,
plus, a night of sleep will surely be
the route that puts the pain to rout.
Pleasant dreams 💞
all in my knee.
So woe is me,
without a doubt,
with my old right hip grousing about
in anatomic solidarity.
But I've some tricksy pills, ya see,
with an anti inflammation clout,
plus, a night of sleep will surely be
the route that puts the pain to rout.
Pleasant dreams 💞
#illness
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People are a disease
People shuffling past me like corpses to stupid to die
Their clothes hold their guts in
Fear holds in the rest
Running like rats
Scurrying through waste paper and filth to their holes before the sun goes down
They have umbilical cords of sewage wrapped around their throats
Choking on life, nursing their wounds
They'll tell you that they're loving every minute of it
Just like prisoners come to love their captors
Just like roaches in a roach motel
Tasting the poison, telling you it's wine
Their clothes hold their guts in
Fear holds in the rest
Running like rats
Scurrying through waste paper and filth to their holes before the sun goes down
They have umbilical cords of sewage wrapped around their throats
Choking on life, nursing their wounds
They'll tell you that they're loving every minute of it
Just like prisoners come to love their captors
Just like roaches in a roach motel
Tasting the poison, telling you it's wine
#fear
#humankind
#ignorance #illness
#ignorance #illness
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I just want to eat dinner…
I’d like to eat
My dinner
Has been
Staring at me
For an hour
While I vomit
The first
Two bites
And
Ten thousand
Tiny sips
Of water
I had to drink
Because
Those two bites
Are sitting
In a heap
In my upper back
So here I am
On DUP
Writing
Reading
Messaging
While I look at
All that deliciousness
Every few...
My dinner
Has been
Staring at me
For an hour
While I vomit
The first
Two bites
And
Ten thousand
Tiny sips
Of water
I had to drink
Because
Those two bites
Are sitting
In a heap
In my upper back
So here I am
On DUP
Writing
Reading
Messaging
While I look at
All that deliciousness
Every few...
#food
#frustration
#illness
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Who Knew?
So, yeahhhh
My overwhelming fatigue
That can change
Yet still be debilitating
Actually has THIRTEEN types
Sjogren’s Syndrome fatigue:
Basic - due to the inherent autoimmune nature of the disease
Rebound- what happens if you push yourself too far
Sudden - crumple and fold, folks
Weather related - self explanatory
Molten lead phenomenon - when you wake up and know it’s going to be a bad day. Your eyes feel like molten lead has been poured in them
...
My overwhelming fatigue
That can change
Yet still be debilitating
Actually has THIRTEEN types
Sjogren’s Syndrome fatigue:
Basic - due to the inherent autoimmune nature of the disease
Rebound- what happens if you push yourself too far
Sudden - crumple and fold, folks
Weather related - self explanatory
Molten lead phenomenon - when you wake up and know it’s going to be a bad day. Your eyes feel like molten lead has been poured in them
...
#illness
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On Being Numb
After nearly twenty five years on handfuls of psychiatric meds and nearly as long isolating from a world I retreated from, my brain didn’t have the elasticity it once had. Not only was I numb, I spent most of my time, locked inside myself. I would sit for hours in silence, not moving, unaware of what was happening around me. The other times, my anxiety was so high that I was paranoid and exhibiting psychotic behavior. A few years ago I was told by my new psychiatrist, the man who finally correctly diagnosed me and helped me come off psychiatric medicine, that I was most likely catatonic at...
#hope
#illness
#MentalHealth
#SelfDiscovery
#confessional
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Syphilis
I had the tiniest touch of syphilis
And my god, I don’t know how so
She crept up my legs
And crawled right in
Either that, or I caught her on the train
At first, I thought we could be lovers
At second, potentially friends
Then it suddenly dawned on me
She simply just had to leave
And that was the end of that affair
And my god, I don’t know how so
She crept up my legs
And crawled right in
Either that, or I caught her on the train
At first, I thought we could be lovers
At second, potentially friends
Then it suddenly dawned on me
She simply just had to leave
And that was the end of that affair
#funny
#illness
#sex
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sometimes
sickness
disease
are a place
undetermined callous paths
sliced glacier pieces
bone broth
the one way
is through
he places his hand in mine
I rest in a gaze
chatter clattering
you can hear the accent
of Rhyl, North Wales
where he grew up
Jules and Mike Peters
are both battling cancer
though they are and have been
ever reaching out
in music solidarity
celebrations
anthemic nature
and...
disease
are a place
undetermined callous paths
sliced glacier pieces
bone broth
the one way
is through
he places his hand in mine
I rest in a gaze
chatter clattering
you can hear the accent
of Rhyl, North Wales
where he grew up
Jules and Mike Peters
are both battling cancer
though they are and have been
ever reaching out
in music solidarity
celebrations
anthemic nature
and...
#illness
#music
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blood and nothingness
My uterus is on its way out
I bleed too heavy
throw up from the pain
can't stand up straight
without painkillers
that barely numb
the all encompassing agony
that some months
makes me want to commit
self-surgery
just so I don't have to feel this way
We've been trying
for a baby for a few months now
and every month the blood comes
to say no, you didn't get
what you wanted this time
I've carried two children
beautiful accidents
and one miscarriage
that left me more broken ...
I bleed too heavy
throw up from the pain
can't stand up straight
without painkillers
that barely numb
the all encompassing agony
that some months
makes me want to commit
self-surgery
just so I don't have to feel this way
We've been trying
for a baby for a few months now
and every month the blood comes
to say no, you didn't get
what you wanted this time
I've carried two children
beautiful accidents
and one miscarriage
that left me more broken ...
#children
#illness
#motherhood
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Lethal Lips
Burning, tingling here it comes
Lip growing fatter
Congratulations, a viral lump
Over the counter meds, do shit
Dare to eat citrus
Better on your lip then your clit!
Cold-sore aka Herpes
Needs to run it's course
It'll be gone in a week or two
Avoid oral during intercourse
Lip growing fatter
Congratulations, a viral lump
Over the counter meds, do shit
Dare to eat citrus
Better on your lip then your clit!
Cold-sore aka Herpes
Needs to run it's course
It'll be gone in a week or two
Avoid oral during intercourse
#illness
#inspirational
#motivational
#rhyming
#satirical
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An Answer?
Unexplainable
Complicated
Rare
I’ve been left with overwhelming fatigue
(I’ll never let that stop me)
Thirty-five medical diagnoses now
But this one..
This one
Took years to diagnose
And may be just the beginning
To the end
Of suffering
Genetic testing soon
Pages of bloodwork
And…
At least six more surgeries
Ahead of me
(that would make a total of twenty-nine)
No cure
But there is treatment
And hope
Complicated
Rare
I’ve been left with overwhelming fatigue
(I’ll never let that stop me)
Thirty-five medical diagnoses now
But this one..
This one
Took years to diagnose
And may be just the beginning
To the end
Of suffering
Genetic testing soon
Pages of bloodwork
And…
At least six more surgeries
Ahead of me
(that would make a total of twenty-nine)
No cure
But there is treatment
And hope
#hope
#illness
#myself
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