~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sometimes it takes a lengthy illness to put things
Back into a healthy state of mind

Though weak and battered
You feel ready to take on the world,
Invigorated and all the batteries are recharged

Sometimes its takes a bad fever
That almost brought you close to death
That makes you prolific again
And rekindles your will to live

And burns off all the impurities
Festering in your veins
And growing in your lungs

And all the hellish nightmares
That poured through your mind
As you laid coughing up your guts
Have transformed your perspective
Of remembering how to breathe

Purging all the infection
From your body and soul

And a sense of well-being
Rises from the aftermath of being a sick zombie

And reconstitutes the fibers of your heart
And allows you to dream again
And heals you of your madness





*pic by author