I am PAIN

Betty Acosta 1956 (Aiaeger W.Virginia)



While all the world is sleeping
And I'm lying in my bed
There is no sleep for me tonight
The pain is screaming in my head

I can't ever sleep anymore
The pain has stolen that too
It has taken everything that I was
And there's nothing I can do.

I wish I was a wife again
And I wish that I could play
With my grandbabies that I adore
But the pain took them away.

About this poem

I suffer from intractable chronic pain syndrome. I had a tumor in my spine and when they removed it they discovered all my discord crushed so they had to wrap a metal wrap or cage around it to keep it from collapsing and then they screwed a large metal plate into my back to attach it to to keep it in place and to keep my spine from collapsing and since that happened I am an excruciating pain 24 hours a day and I no longer am who I was the pain has taken everything away from me I'm no longer a wife no longer a mother no longer a foster parent no longer volunteer no longer a grandmother which was my favorite part of my life being a grandmother and a foster parent and I miss doing both and now all I am is pain 24 hours a day pain because I can't sleep anymore because of insomnia because of the pain is so extreme it doesn't let me sleep

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Written on October 01, 2021

Submitted by Bettyboop56a on September 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BCXC XDBD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 348
Words 76
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Betty Acosta

I am 65 years old I have wrote All My Life I love poetry when we move from West Virginia to California kids made fun of us because of how we spoke so I turned to English and I devoured everything English and learned my vocabulary and learned a vast vocabulary of words and became a speed reader and I had a very abusive childhood and I wasn't allowed to express my feelings so the only way I could show feelings with through my poetry so I wrote everything down all my feelings and that's how I started writing .. more…

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