The Unwelcome

As my heavy eyes stretched open
I suddenly realized, I was not alone
You were there with me again, unwelcome with your heaviness and sorrow
stirring around once more in the depths of my brain, uninvited.

The acute pain you cause me 
has seemed relentless this past year
as you stumble around in my dreams, sleepless I awaken 
to curtains drawn as the thankless sunlight frowns forsaken.

I wondered in my drowsy state
If the curse was in the chocolate 
or perhaps it was that one glass of wine which betrayed me 
as I fell back in harm’s way while you laid in wait, veiled I could not see.

I long to have you out of my life
You do not define me yet you try
so very hard to keep me under your curse, weakening my very essence
with your intense pain , lashing out with your ever ready presence.

I am more than you
you may steal a day of my life 
here and there as you savagely twist my hours into tragedy 
only to see jagged lines of sorrow drawing out my agony.

But I am more than you
You cannot define me with your promise of pain
Or your lifetime of shadows cast from family with the same
No this girl, will not let you win even if you are dangerous and inflamed 
I am more than you.

Written by : Corrina Leblond - aka migraine sufferer
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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