losing the war

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tw: chronic illness/pain, mentions of injury and dying 

~ having some very bad flare ups with my pain rn and it hurts to walk and sit and stand and lie down so yeah it's not going great ~

written on january 16, 2024


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i felt good for a month

good was amazing

good was fucking fantastic


and then i leaned over a bit too much doing the dishes

couldn't walk for two weeks


after those two weeks i started to walk again

some pain but that was to be expected i guess


and then i fell

landed on my bad knee

it was bruised black and blue

limping again for weeks


i would try to hide it as best as i could

i thought no one would notice

but of course they would


it's just my bad back

it's just my bad knee

everything's bad and i'm only nineteen


where does my body end and the pain begin?

i cannot say

i cannot comprehend


they say you can win the battle but you can't win the war

those words have never seemed so true before


because i can feel fine for a month and tell myself it's not a lie

but in the end i will still be forced to watch my body decay and die while i am trapped inside

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