Illness Poems - Poems about Illness

A little girl lay still Quietly in her bed Fighting the screams That roared inside her head Hiding the fear within Eyes sealed shut Breath contained Too scared to move She can longer stay Too distressed Her little brain floats away Splitting itself Forming new selves...Read the rest...

Awake, floods of razors flow to my heart Beep. My mind speeds in circles I'm a zombie lying...Read the rest...

I grieve for all of what can never ever come to be. I grieve for all the moments and times in which others have left me. I grieve for all the ways I could have lived differently....Read the rest...

I’m scared of what life has in store But I’m also excited to see what it is. Back in 2021 I wanted to end it all I was ready to forfeit this race. It was always day but...Read the rest...

What difficult insanity? Repeating every day. Laughing, pure absurdity at life’s prevailing way. The lack of understanding buried deep in darker deeds. Dysfunctional autonomy, that never will succeed. Psychotic conversations with an entity not there. Do you feel the sunshine’s warmth? Or smell the human air? As...Read the rest...

Believe After all this agony, I still believe. Though my spirit suffered, I found relief. I seek to rescue, Cause all these pains are addictive. After all this torture, I still believe. Words cannot express how it is vindictive, The way life...Read the rest...

Smoldering In The Dark My muse set fire to my soul With her Irish blood and scorpion sting The darkness had no chance. Skeletons huddled in the closet Bones rattled as it burned to the ground Ashes to ashes, dust to...Read the rest...

Igniting pain retrieving the chemical imbalance in my brain soft tissue itched my frontal lobe leaned over my forehead as my temporal lobe offered little comfort in cognitive skills my optic nerve damage piercing pain...Read the rest...

I walk in circles. Then I walk in bigger circles. My mom tells me to walk to the store. But I’m too tired to be outside. Inside is just easier. I’m still drawing my circles like an ice skater, And I’m...Read the rest...

Images of broken lights that dance before my jagged tears, Inspecting me and sending me to Jupiter and Mars, High above the heady halls of home and heartless heresies, We dream the dreams of galaxies and saturate the...Read the rest...

In the darkest recesses of my mind a maelstrom brews, a tempest unseen epilepsy's insidious tendrils weave a tapestry of chaos, thoughts ensnared Every step a battle, every task a test concentration's flame flickers, threatened by the relentless onslaught of seizures'...Read the rest...

To You, With Love, From Me Please know I too have felt there is nothing left, been afraid, and out of hope. Please know I too have felt there is nothing left and did not know if...Read the rest...

They had just called us over. So I knew it was 5:00. We’re all restless now, so it’s 5:02. He’s always a little late. When the window opens, It is tempting to run back to bed. But I can’t sleep anyway. I...Read the rest...

The meds should be working by now… They are but, I still drink coffee all night to drive away the nightmares. The meds are working, I trust them. I told the doctor, and he is evil. Burning, and tingling, and...Read the rest...

He thinks he killed me. So he rolled me up in a rug. I thought I died too but then I wiggled my toes. Rugs are bristly and hot, so I felt that too. When I try to unfurl,...Read the rest...