Pain so intense feels as though it might pierce my skin.
Close my eyes only for everything to spin.
Not round and round but forth and back.
My brain when it has a need to savagely attack.
Take deep breathes in hopes that this throbbing will ease.
For as long as this lasts it feels like a new disease.
Timer is ticking but I haven’t a clue.
If this will be minutes, hours, day or a few.
Eyes hate light and any kind of deep thought.
Send my muscles into a tightening knot.
Fighting to function is a losing battle.
Better to lie in a dark room and wait for an ending to settle.
Its worse than a kick to the teeth or a stab in the gut.
For this is below the surface relentlessly pushing up.
Reminding you how delicate you really are.
Give me a break from this torturous burn.
Let these painkillers numb this continuous lancing feeling that exists in my head.
Right behind my eye from cheek to forehead.
Though when it subsides I’ll be overjoyed.
Until that happens I might as well be lost to some void.
Swimming in oceans as my eyes seek light I refuse to offer.
Reminding them that when this agony withdraws they can view all they wanna.
Simon A Jackson - Writer 