Sharing a Migraine Poem

Since I can't enter our Putting our Heads Together poetry contest, I thought I'd share a poem with you here. This is my most recent poem about living with Migraine disease...

phantom tango

the beat is faint, the dance slow

     so slow I’m not sure we’re dancing

my partner is but a shadow

     waiting to become more than a phantom

 

the disco ball that so blithely

     cast shards of light upon my eyes

forecast my partner’s arrival

     yet I had dared hope he would not follow

 

but the beat strengthens

     and the dance intensifies

the steps we’ve danced before

     are too familiar and unmitigatedly unwelcome

 

we turn and dip, this direction then that

     an intimate tango

with each dip, my stomach rebels

     the dips so deep my head ricochets off the floor

 

he shows no pity

     but dances the dance his sadistic way

and when I am beyond spent, he departs

     without so much as a bow at the end

 

Migraine is a merciless partner

     a relentless partner

a murderess I would gladly become

     if only I could slay him

© Teri Robert, 2007

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