Hi everyone and welcome to to my 31st Haiku Hope – part of the COPE campaign bundle of creative distractions.
This time I thought I’d write about pain. Fucking mind boggling pain. Pain that makes you so miserable it ruins Christmas and takes away all elements of life until you start thinking the world is imploding around you and you can’t even think straight.
I hope, no I KNOW, i’m not alone with this one, as chronic pain is effecting millions of adults just like me in the UK alone. Pop on top of that some mental instability that causes huge concern, and suddenly there seems to be no end to the misery.
I wrote this haiku at around 3am, when my pain was doing it’s best work, and my loneliness was doing the same.
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Make it stop
Pills make me drowsy
Grinding bones still break through them
Swallow more for sleep.
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Sometimes the only answer, the only escape, is sleep. Thankfully some days my pain relief will help with that. It’s a break, if nothing else.
Remember if you need more distractions then there are more jokes on my Hold Humour page, as well as haikus on Haiku Hope, awful poems on Crap Poems and odd language in Weird Words. I also have a page dedicated to stress hacks and other ideas to try if you need a distraction within the COPE campaign section of this website.
On my support page there is a list of contact details for organisations that can help with autism and support parents of autistic kids.
Thanks for visiting.
Creative Steph 