Sickly

Sickly since placenta touches air

Membranes crumbled before cracked

Adversity to one’s situations

Thickens skin

Surprise dins

Strength creeps through

Like Hurt on table

A new form punching through

Alien to surroundings strummed

         Providing shelter

                  As body rests prone upon plated glass

                           And flesh shades to tungsten fast

Sickly since birth I’ve been

         Pockets filled with albuterol and epinephrine

                   Walking through worlds of evolving allergens

And Hospitals, a vacation home of sorts

Episodic transgressions dwindle

As age inches and immunizations strengthen bronchi

Not gone, just asleep

But what is attractive to all

Is attractive to some

And so herniated discs squeezed into place

All from a common fall,

That easily could’ve happened to each and all

Without fracture, without scowl

Perhaps a bruised ego and a laugh to muster over

Agonizing aches, tears the shape

Popping pills to reduce the fate

Numb, for short sets,

Not gone, just asleep

Until the pullback reveals quakes and space

Another answer remedied

By perk and set

 But you learn to deal; you learn to deal with it all

Perhaps not well, but better still

Physicality tears, each peck and page

Crunching spirit cold,

         Into melancholic balls of scrap and twine

Reducing wear upon tracks sublime

Wondering how long is the road back

Is trying part of the antidote

Or just another

 Conspirator to the crime

You’d think, after overcoming the first act, persevering through the second, that the third, being but of mind alone, that denouement would have by now been known; would have seams tied and direction sewn.

         But, alas… 

I guess we’ll just have to wait see