Migraine

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

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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