Tossing
Turning
Hot
Cold
Exasperated
Why can't I sleep?
Commercials
Songs
Day's events
Run like galloping horses
Through my brain
Ugh!!
I have so much
To do
The next day
School
Project
Paper
Presentation
Is it the anxiety?
Is it the stress?
Why now?
I've been stressed and anxious
For years
What made my body
My brain
Go haywire
NOW?
A hyperactive mind
You say
Really
Well what's the remedy?
How do you switch off
Something without limit
Or end
An eternal internal membrane
Every remedy
Under the big
Bright sun
Has been tried
Without any permanent
Solution or big voila!
Sometimes
I truly wish
I could unscrew
My head and
Gingerly place it
On a shelf
For just a little while
Without sleep
There isn't any
Peace
Happiness
Strength
Concentration
Stimuli
With everything
Going on right now
My own body
Is betraying me
How could it?
Chronic exhaustion
And
Insomnia
Go hand in hand
They are best friends
Always together
Never to part
They play together
Hole up in your body together
Attack together
What a spritely pair!
In order to get rid of one
I have to get rid of the other
I must fight
Somehow
Find the will power
The nonexistent strength
So I can just stand up and say
For the love of all that's holy
Insomnia, drop dead!
Then continue on my path
Toward the future
And never look back
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ME Survivor (Book 3)
Poetry17 million people around the world suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME and it is incurable and untreatable. The disease is called ME but Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS is the name the CDC gave it. Doctors for the most part think that it is...
