Sums it Up

Walk in my shoes

start the day waking to your muscles contracting

you feel a tug within your skin pulling at the nerve fibers

you try to relax at the same time reminding yourself to breath

your breath is labored

a mouth breather

how quickly you become dehydrated

fighting the pain that erupts from each joint you get up

choking down behind clenched teeth a scream

agonizingly you make your way to the bathroom

I'll skip over natures necessities

leaving you knowing that you finish covered in a cold sweat

you struggle methodically to remove you night wear

turn the shower on

you cringe as your skin becomes hypersensitive

you suddenly become hydrophobic

somehow you get in

clenching your teeth so tight you can hear them fracture

pins and needles covered in bee stings accosts you relentlessly

fighting fire with fire you embrace your flesh

willing it to calm

finishing the grueling task of staying clean you try to dress

again your body decides to oppose you

perspiration is your enemy

your wetter then you were in the shower

letting lose you scream

obscenities erupt without censorship

acceptance

you realize you can't fight it

you work within the pain and inabilities

taking mental inventory of all abnormalities

after several hours of stretching

relaxing and contracting limbs

reminding yourself to breath

your body releases the rigor mortis state it was in

your now in a time constraint

history has proven that come five o'clock

or should you sit and rest

your body once again goes into rigor mortis

day after day

it wears you down

you find out how true it is

a far away place in your head

start loosing time

in the hear and now you have drool running down your chin

realizing you don't care

a state of bliss

a fake reality

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