The pain is unbearable, mind-bending.
I can't remain in the light.
The hours slip by, pain unending.
I give in, much too sick to fight.
I can't remain in the light;
Sounds are sometimes okay.
I don't know if it's day or night,
I try to keep my body still as I lay.
Sounds are sometimes okay,
But, please don't even touch me now!
I'm trying to keep still, as I lay,
If I could sleep, I'd get through, somehow.
But, please, don't even touch me now!
My body screams, "Leave me alone!"
If I could sleep, I'd make it through, somehow,
But all I do is sigh, weep and moan.
My body screams, "Leave me alone!"
The hours slip by, pain unending.
All I can do is sigh, weep and moan:
The pain is unbearable, mind-bending.
*The pantoum is a form of poem that originated in France, based on a form from Malaya. The lines of the poem are in groups of four lines, and the last line must be the same as the first line. The pantoum came into fashion with the work of Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire.
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