ATTACK FROM WITHIN

A poem about how I feel suffering with Chronic Pain Disease.

Suffering silently,

In a world of pain.

Is how I spend

Each and every day.

In this land of freedom

I feel so trapped,

So helpless and hopeless,

Against this attack.

Unarmed and assaulted

By the assailant within,

A battle of wills that

I have no chance to win.

Pain wracks my body.

My mind says it's so.

My spirits I raise high

To have them crushed back below.

My mind grows weaker.

My body's strength fades;

Just another day living

With this disease, Chronic Pain.