Short Pain Pill Poems

Trying to spring clean
And muscle spasms are a thing
So I’m forced to take pain pill 
And now I’m sleepy lost my will

So gonna take a Power Nap
Then give dust bunnies a zap
It sucks being chronically ill
Yet poetry gives me a thrill still
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Chronic illness isn’t for punks
You deal with pain feel drained
I wonder why my power failed
To heal myself be a miracle 
I think it’s leftover trauma
I forgot in maroon mind
But body blues recall drama
So I will find a white way
To break the cycle of pain
And gain the keys to self help...

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I'm a planet unto myself.
A bright blue ball of pain.
Glowing,
           shimmering,
                       spinning,
Thru the blackness of the universe.
Waiting for the pain pill
To kick in.
So that I can begin to shrink.
Smaller,
          Smaller,
                     Smaller,
And finally become a human
           Once again....

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Gods love is a word you can only feel
trust me, it's better than any pain pill
if you think you gotta go this life alone
think one more time, God says 'nope'

now you have a friend that will never forsake nor leave
all you have to do is tell him how you feel, and believe
when we fall into loneliness we need to release our fist
remember God wants ou to know He loves you has got this!...

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Cannot sleep here late at night
My body feels so tense and tight
My body aches from all the work
Cannot escape these pains that lurk

Put a pain pill in my head
I did it while I was in bed
Would not take my pains away
Maybe they are here to stay

Make sure that you like your work
So it is worth the pains that lurk
Or you might have some trouble sleeping
Maybe even wind up weeping...

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Oh, the pain of getting a thumb struck
Is not overshadowed by feeling dumbstruck
When a car door is slammed on a finger
There is no logical reason to linger
Taking a pain pill as soon as possible
In this case is perfectly permissible
Soaking in ice is always helpful, too
But I don’t know what else to do!


written August 12, 2021
especially for "Dumbstruck" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Charles Messina...

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Aspirin, a powerful little pill
Ibuprofen, a safe pain pill

Them two little remedies almost stole what's mine 
Finding myself in the emergency room was a shock to me

I didn't know I had it
That little bug in me that doesn't agree with some foreign bugs

Constricted airways, wheezing, swelling every where, name it all
And then to top it all, a mammoth bill 

So i've become a paranoid little being
Keeping my enemies far from my food incase someone decided to slip a pill...

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