Like a rogue father
She comes once a year
Twice this time
Have I debt to pay?
And is ever so kind to send warning
Sweeping in from the right but stealing my vision
“Here I come,” she cackles
Sentences start with noun but are left without participle
It’s time to lie
Play dead
Trick her into leaving
Before I’m imprisoned to bed
Act late
She has you
A shot between the eyes
Bleeding on the inside
“What have you?”
Your peace, she replies, and comfort and value
I’m a useless lump of body
While her fingers stab my eyes
Her thumb digs a hole in the back
She’s palming my brain
No skull left
Yesterday’s care, tomorrow’s worry
Gone, when her vice tightens
All the world inside my head
Centered around a darkness that grows when the light’s in
No pill can ease her
No drug can tame her
She’s an infection spreading
Buried in a place where madness begins
Sleep is my only redemption
Soon she will leave
Pack up her things
Erasing her evidence
Consciousness leaves and returns
I’m stirred awake by her presence
Then once again it fades
Into blackness
Until the next morning I wake
Left alone like a midnight lover who fled
Everything is normal
And I wait for her return when she calls on my debt
