Street Roots • July 20-26, 2018
Street Poetry
Page 14
Shapes In The Clouds
(Living With Fibromyalgia)
Untitled
by Doug Hamilton
by Brent Zapushek
It seems there is a civil war
A brewin’
I don’t know if it will do any
Improvin’
It seems to do a lot of
Hurtin’
Which the news loves to be
Showin’
Maybe what we are really
Needin’
Is a lot more
Lovin’
And a lot more
Listenin’
So we can stop all this
Hatin’
And be a lot more
Open...
Alone in this pain,
as I live my life.
No one can see.
How I feel inside.
I can’t move like the wind now.
But I am still strong.
What’s wrong lives within me.
I am in here all along.
Inside I am writhing.
All filled up with pain.
I can’t sleep all night.
I am going insane.
No I can’t go anymore.
To a place with no pain.
Still parts inside me.
Love to walk in the rain.
All I can think of.
When it gets too much.
Is dying and ending.
I am sore to the touch.
I love to walk in the dark.
Maybe some time hold hands.
Some timé while there’s time.
Maybe walk in the sand.
I feel much colder.
Or warmer than you.
There is no control.
What my body must do.
I would love to go hiking.
Maybe ride a trail.
Soon I won’t be able.
My legs they will fail.
My mind doesn’t work.
Like I thought it would be.
This thing takes my thoughts.
And my memories from me.
So you see I am scared now.
Like never before.
And that’s not all.
My legs don’t work anymore.
Then I will hope that.
Then someone will take.
Me out to a field.
Then help me lay.
Maybe lay down beside me.
As I say out loud.
Hey look it’s an Angel.
All the shapes in the clouds.
I did run and climb.
Man I rode so fast.
One time I did 50.
Kids in cars saw me pass.
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