Poems

Today during your quick writes, I actually wrote a poem for almost every period (until  my head starting hurting so much that thinking didn't help it).  None of them are titled, and the last one is still a work in progress ... I just couldn't get the last stanzas where I wanted them and didn't think I fully finished it.

Head pounding
   it won't stop
Have to keep going
   but just want to sleep
Taken some Tylenol
   No relief
Have drank plenty of water
   Still no relief
Tried some caffeine
   A little better
Still a dull throb
   Right behind the eye
Just want it to stop
   Want to not cringe
Light makes it worse
    Makes me squinty
Movement adds pain
    Sometimes makes me dizzy
Just hoping there's no sick
    It helps - but ick
Head pounding
    Please stop

**********
Darkness never ends
It builds and builds
but never decreases
You're stuck in it
and can't escape
No matter how hard you fight

You don't want
to give in
to its pull.
But its impossible not
to fall into the hole
So, you just tumble down.

The abyss eats at you.
Drowns your soul.
But this never spits you out
It keeps eating
because it has to take it all

***********

It keeps piling on
It never stops
It's not just figuratively
There's stacks and stacks
all around

Many of them
One of me
It doesn't work
Help would be nice
It will never come

Prioritizing takes more time -
time away from the piles
Time I could be lowering them
Instead they just
grow
and grow
and grow

Their growth is:
overwhelming
Scary
Never ending

One day I fear
it will all collapse
and bury me.
No worries then.
Except --
A scary end.

**********

Everything seems brighter
     clearer
     happier
Moods have changed
     improved
     grown
You can see growth
     flowers
     grass
Smells return
     fresh
     *??????
Not everything improves
     nose
     eyes
Pollen flies around
     runny
     scratchy