I Chart My Recovery

Today I am a bit less cough

a bit more lungs

there is breathing but

I would not call it easy

I am a right-sided migraine headache

with elements of rage

it makes me hot as venom

it is exhausting

I sleep hope to wake

with more tolerance of light

more tolerance

More eyes less weeping

It is exhausting

When I wake I am

a bit less muscle ache

a bit more legs

I walk without holding

onto the wall

I am less nausea more

say it quietly hunger

Hunger

I have blood boiling

on the hob

it never thickens

boiling roiling rage

and I thirst