Goosebumps
GOOSEBUMPS
I experience sudden keen sensation on dermis
with tiny swellings erecting skin hairs momentarily
owing to excitement, fear or strong emotion.
Within few seconds all calm down.
But I recollect childhood days,
towards past to chase and to gaze.
Memory of eruption of goosebumps on dermis flashed!
Several attacks I had experienced,
But all happened on a kid under twelve.
I apprehend that’s an air-borne allergy
affecting few children owning sensitive skin.
Few times mostly at eve in winter,
sudden rashes in lots of little lumps
as inflammation termed goosebumps
appearing on cutis causing itching burning sensation.
My grandma was prompt to put me on bed lying supine
and applying herbal remedy
by rubbing wheat-flour all over body.
I was asked not to touch or scratch on lumps.
She then covered me with a thin blanket.
Within two or three hours
all swellings slowly sank to fade away
releasing skin tone absolute smooth.
I was grown up.
Goosebumps were never aggressive to choose me.
Those had left me forever.
11/18/19
'Goosebumps' Contest by Delilah Ventura
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