Delirium

Delirium

My body feels too heavy,

Each limb struggles to lift its own weight,

My legs refuse to move

A dull aching pain lingers

Continuously behind each muscle

My thoughts are like those of a dreamer

Perhaps I’ll wake up

Perhaps this IS all a dream

Some strange adventure

Like those dreams

Where you can never

Open your eye’s wide enough

And all the facts get distorted

You know something

important is about to happen

and you become resigned

to the simple truth

You will feel it

You will hear it

But you will never see it.

My thoughts have rambled on

Like this all day.

My throat is so

Swollen I can’t swallow

Yet it is the only thing

That does not hurt

I can feel each breath

On the back of my throat

I can hear each intake

Of breath as it rasps by

My limbs refuse to obey

They are too tired

Too over used

Yet all I have done is sleep

My dreams are haunted

By strange visions

Of people I know

Of people I have known

Of people who are no more

Delirium

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