I want to be free



No one knows how it feels to be me,
Locked in this body, I long to be free,
My brain has all these brilliant ideas ,
My body says no, not happening my dear,
I want to be normal and go to the shop,
I dont want the pain or the "I'm going to drop"
Then there's the fog that makes me forget,
I'm trying to remember but here comes the sweat,
The dizziness is here and it's not going away,
The hot pokers in my joints will not keep at bay,
The muscle spasms pop up and shout here I am!
Now comes the anxiety along with sweaty palms,
I cant breathe, the world is going to end,
The pain in my chest that I cannot suspend,
The world is spinning and I can't get a grip,
This needs to end or I am going to flip,
This ship will sink from so many leagues,
I cant bear this constant fatigue,
People don't get it, you can't understand,
The simplest of things are so hard to withstand,
Do you think I really want to be this freak?
Not able to function and being so damn weak?
Why can't you see the effort I make,
Everything I attempt, for yours and their sake,
I dont ask to be stuck in this cage,
It looks like a body but inside it's plagued,
Please see I try, I want to be me
Believe me when I say, I want to be free!

About this poem

7 years ago my life was taken away overnight I went from a relatively normal slimming world fitbit challenges 30k steps a day single mum to 3 sick kids and 2 collies to bedbound overnight for nearly 2 years and no one can tell me why. Now I'm diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndrome but there are other issues that drs aren't bothered about trying to find out what actually started this and a way to treat or even end it.

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Written on June 21, 2022

Submitted by loopy_lou1983 on October 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCDDEEFFGHIIJJKLMMNNOOPQAA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,203
Words 274
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28

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