Meditation on Bronchitis

Breathe

Take a deep breath, let it

out,

slowly. Feel it

drain away

your stress and fears and…

It sounds so simple.

And it is

until

breathing out does not happen

slowly but

explosively

in a rasping painful

cough that empties the lungs until

you struggle to fill them again only

to have the same result

an endless cycle of trying

to not breathe in so you

don’t have to

breathe out.

 

 

 

Death Warmed Over

… and left to congeal again.  All

I want is life

or death

not

this halfway state

that is commonly known

as the common

cold.

(Yeah. I felt like crap all day. This is the best I could come up with for a poem and I’m afraid to see what I’ve written for Camp NaNoWriMo…)