Posted by jeff glickman on May 02, 1999 at 17:03:24:
Cluster headache comes.
I moan with ferocity.
Tears drip from my eye.
A murder of crows
pecks my trigeminal nerve.
Eye clutching anguish
I scream at lungs’ height
I smash the world with both fists
Cry me a river
Overpowering.
What direct experience!
Little sleep is had
The pain’s quality:
skin held to a hot griddle.
Intolerable
The pain’s quality:
red hot ice pick through the eye.
Debilitating.
Others can’t relate.
Who knows this pain’s quality?
Clusterheads only
Non-pulsating pain
usurps my priorities.
Living life on hold
Find a way to deal.
Enduring such pain is hard.
Maybe suicide
The beast works at night
repeating attacks of pain.
I crave the big sleep
Unfortunates bear
daily multiple attacks.
The demon rests not
Cluster headache is
relentless domination.
Will dies over time
Cluster sufferers -
my pain saturated kin.
Lucky lot are we
Health care insurers,
The medical industry.
Overdue for change
Find some empathy.
anesthesiologist -
He knows acute pain
Manage the mayhem.
Can meds affect this horror?
Relief’s elusive
Impede the cycle:
Lithium, verapamil ...
Build a layer cake
Once more awakened.
Oh no! Not another one!
Hold panic at bay
Spray gulp inject breathe:
How can I abort the beast?
Costly options
Go for the needle?
Such an easy thing to do.
How often? What cost?
Though Imitrex rules,
a culprit this cure may be.
Rebound headache next
The mask muzzles me.
Hear the reassuring hiss.
Inhale hungrily
Pure oxygen cures
vascular vulgarity.
A fact - not hot air
My head is now clear
There is clear sailing ahead
Now then, where was I?
This became an outlet for venting emotional and
psychological baggage related to my CH-induced
suffering. It has been therapeutic for me. Think
I’ll try limericks next. :^)