Embarrassment
Discomfort
Disgust
Sadness
Invalidity
Failure
Loser
Adjectives
To explain feelings
Of how it feels
To be pushed around
A dark street
Or an airport
At 30
In a
Wheelchair
When your mother
Who is 30 years older
Does the pushing
And you pretend
This is all a part of life
No it's really not
It's part of a nightmare
That fails to go away
Each day I wake up
Hoping today
Is that day
The day I can get up
Walk around
Leave my room
The second floor
The house
The driveway
The street
Walk strong
Full of breath
Without vertigo
Vacuum draining exhaustion
Pressure in the head
Migraines
Body tremors
Without the
Ever present reminder
Of the wheelchair
In the garage
When?
When can it happen already?
2 years isn't enough?
I lose hope a lot
So much so that I stand
Sometimes in my home office
Staring at the diplomas on my wall
My academic accomplishments
That are being wasted
How?
How do I fix this?
How do I feel young again?
Not in a never ending nightmare that includes
A wheelchair
Please
Save me
Help me
YOU ARE READING
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...
