ME/CFS: genesis

k.s.w

I live in a city, work at a job, rent an apartment, and occasionally do laundry. Unmarried without children. I am too young for the life I’ve lived, but not old enough.

ME/CFS: genesis

In a body so deviant,

so hallucinatory,

so enmeshed with ghosts I cannot name.

I am afraid to go missing,

that my absence will go unnoticed,

and the only evidence of my existence

will be the indent my heat pad has melted into the bed.

I have experience with disappearing-

when the spine starts to crumble,

when the food won’t go down,

when the flesh is a coffin.

A type of death there is no funeral for.

Yet with the grace of time and memory,

I reincarnate.

Released to the earth like

the falling of an angel.

I am unkillable.