On the face & on the lips…under the chin & in the inner cheeks…
On the head & in the hair…along the pathways taking in the air…
In the teeth & on the tongue…in the jaws & all around the gums…
In the bones & in the joints…throughout the ribs & on the spine…
The hypersensitivity & the soreness…the pain & the sickness…
The headaches & the muscle aches…the pimples & the ulcers…
The throbbing & the nausea…the clicking & the breathlessness…
The spasms & the restlessness…the exhaustion & the fitfulness…
The flesh bulging red & bursting…the skin outside tearing itself apart & peeling…
With bleeding within & pain upon swallowing…hearing yet not quite fully hearing…
From the nose down to the throat…down to the neck & down to the shoulders…
Further down to the chest & down to the bladder…up to the eyes up to the ears…
Wounds widespread with nowhere spared…with rest not an option for the flesh…
With too much chattering & blurring…the body system involuntarily overworking…
Senses weakening & organs malfunctioning…caving under relentless pressure…
Every state of rest a state of discomfort…feeding is agony & sleeping is torture…
With veins so tight from stretching so thin…breathing itself is energy-consuming…
With symptoms never-relieving…reality is such a fight of endurance never-ending…
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May this war-torn physical being fight for the last time…& gain the victory finally…
Like really…seriously…painfully…may this last time be truly the last time already…
& then again…just for how long more will this hopefully-supposedly last time be?
