Blanketing Pain

Smiles:) Barbara The worse pain I ever felt was last month on this very date the 24th when i took medicine for my thinning bones and went to the emergency room for relief. While they check for flu and pneumonia symptoms {not even a slightest of a cold) I could barely breathe waiting for pain medicine. Woke up to the doc staring down at me saying the medicine made me sleepy I believe its a virus. great poem enjoyed reading. ya you capture pain well in this piece

That was hair raising. Since I suffer from RA and gout I can relate to this very closely. Man, you captured pain well and the relief yet the bad part of the relief also. WOW! Rett: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Winston Churchill

This hurts to read. That edged part, where your choices are physical pain or numbness/oblivion...damned if you do and damned if you don't. Good poem. Had you thought of dividing the first line into two? Seems like it'd fit the rest of the poem better that way.

this was fiction, but realize it is not. Beautifully and artistically painted a portrait of a difficult situation and associated choices. Best to you, Tom

..no pain, no gain should be shot. Sorry this is a real poem for you. Hope it can be alleviated safely. ~Jess K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on..." - Ronnie Barker

You really delivered well on this poem, the suffering felt be many, Very best Regards Peter ~~~~~~~~~Creativity Is to think more efficiently~~~~~~~~~~

I can't stand pills. I have a horrible gag reflex and retch at the thought of swallowing the cursed things. I'm prone to kidney infections and I'm so scared of pills that the last time I had one.. I didn't tell anyone. The way I get myself to believe I don't need pills is to think about all the people that lived pretty long lives before the development of western medicine. I really like the way you've written this. It's an explanation but it seems to be just a conversation in his head. It reminded me how much my goomshoom had relied on pills to keep him 'healthy'. Day after day, stuck to a pill popping schedule. It made me wonder if he'd hated taking those pills. I love the poem. Kudos

nicely on this. Thanx, Chuck

comes to me very strong after reading this. Thanks Richard. In ink, Dabbler

I too know the double edge of this sword. I have degenerative arthritis in my hips and knees. I was given darvocette for this condition and it doesn't even take the edge off the pain unless I take two pills every 6 hours, instead of 1 pill every 4 hours. Then there is the down side of my mental capacities when taking the meds. Recently I discovered a pill called chondroitin, glucosamine, and msm. The brand name is called "Triflex". It is an over the counter medication which my dr. told me about. It has reduced the pain greatly without impairing my mental facilities. now I rarely have to take anything else for that pain. Always, Cat

I've thought alot about how our bodies owe nothing to us. Its kind of hard for me to understand that I'm actually alive and not just simply watching the world like an eye. but I feel it more when I am in pain. I liked this once again, it reminded me of one of Linda Pastan's poems : Pain More faithful than lover or husband it cleaves to you, calling itself by your name as if there had been a ceremony. At night you turn and turn searching for the one bearable position, but though you may finally sleep it wakens ahead of you. How heavy it is, displacing with its volume your very breath. Before, you seemed to weigh nothing, your arms might have been wings. Now each finger adds its measure; you are pulled down by the weight of your own hair. And if your life should disappear ahead of you you would not run after it.

222's with Codeinne sulphat and caffienne five of these babies and I'm good for the day Damned doctors wont give me anything cant find a doctor self medicate and drink at night when no one knows my Brandy 375mls worth straight good brandy too my lower back is Kaput big time handling forty pound bags of plaster and lesser of casts in half a day and cycling on rough roads to work and carrying fifty pounds of groceries from the Supermarket BUT I know so many who have cancer and are fighting it right now still this is my remedy needless to say the vacarious results in job performance and memory are jilted like tilting at windmills Pain is not funny this has progressively deteriorated in years my escape is to write poems of course just grin and crash into it listen to weird music and sit for hours playing Flight Sim games which further compresses the lower sping three hours sleep work for four home putter about etc sit for hours at night here on Neopoet A glimpse into my boring life P.S. I will no longer be posting to Forum anymore but wait my twenty four hours

I havent seen this one before but its awesome my friend your last lines sealed it for me deliver me mindless awake me not easing into madness I take the shot letting go of dinner droooooling now pain none. wow .... Brilliant write so glad I got to read it ... Much love n Hugz Jayne x x

...is one of my latest, (theme suggested by my pain specialist Dr. Parks), but what I liked most about your poem is, that it can be effective reading, no matter what type of pain one is suffering from. Well done. read my poem, "No Pain, No Gain", if you've got the time and analgesic.Lol ! sincerely, "Write On"! good job ! #{:>{)}@==== docmaverick.

The pain must be from the crush of compliments. I had to scroll down to Persia just to find a parking place. You are getting edgier and edgier, using words in creative fashion to find new ways of communicating. It is quite something. Olya says: "Wow". Physical pains leave me in the never got anywhere remains… but there’s a pill for it I don’t want to take. Brian