"anaphylaxis" poems
Tonight I was *****
I got persuaded by a ten year old boy,
A boy of 6,
Into doing "things".
His supple boy skin,
Mine suppler not even sun kissed,
yet kissing ****
Tonight. I'm 24.
I hurt from every pore,
As my breathing shallows.
I tried ******* only a taste.
I ate a pin ***** size morsel.
Throat closed, anaphylaxis.
The praxis of finding out, through rashes of histamine.
Every time I shower.
I played in the mud.
Doesn't wash off.
Guilt.
Oh man, how my grandma used to try.
Scrub me.
I'd scrub just as hard,
Till raw in my arms.
Every evening.
I lay in bed.
contemplate things.
Look at what has happened.
I see him again.
I cry,
I weep,
I spit,
Oh curses.
Can't change it.
Can't take my mouth off his ****
You know. The good stuff.
Bein' a kid is hard...
Bein' adult that was once a kid is harder'
You know. They used to put us in prison.
Line us up in rows, make us do LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG division.
Walk in a straight line. Hold your inmates hand.
I used to work the problems backwards,
The teachers would get mad at me,
Make me work at their desk,
Knew i must be cheating,
Made me teach class,
I never grew up from that.
I used to think that this happy trail led to a ******
Once closed up.
I thought I was gay.
Now...I just know that.
Well happy trails aren't always happy.
At least mines finally growing hair.
Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 2:26 AM UTC
I have been craving that which I know will make me sick.
Already,
The mere thought has my stomach roiling,
Insides twisting in displeasure,
Heart pounding out its discomfort,
Head aching in protest;
My fever keeps climbing
But I can't take a hint,
For it seems there's no proper immune response
For desire,
No thorough little antibodies to drive the thought away,
Just a full body reaction,
A rebellion of the senses,
Near anaphylaxis;
It would seem that I'm allergic to you.
But Benadryl and epinephrine are of no use to me
Since it's this wanting that's the problem,
Stumbling over myself just to see you smile,
All the while tying my intestines into impossible knots.
I know that you're no good for me,
But like a dizzy, desperate ******
I can't cut myself off,
Can't force myself to stop chasing you
Though you cause my airways to constrict.
Feb 1, 2011
Feb 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM UTC
Please everyone, I know not everyone prays, but my niece is having Anaphylaxis . Please keep her in your prayers, or in mind.
Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 8:03 PM UTC
she warned me
that, when taken in overdose,
the white pills cause seizures,
anaphylaxis,
heart arrhythmia,
ending in death.
she warned me
never take
too many.
never give a girl
who tried twice
the ammunition
to try again.
i’m bleeding again
& i don’t care enough
for my own skin
to disinfect
& bandage
the damage.
so i’ll sing myself to sleep
choking on half-breaths
left breathless
at knowing
everything’s breaking
again.
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 11:12 PM UTC
These kids are like dragons
Their flames will only drag them down
All the talk is cheap,
Actions only happen on softened ground
As my mind and eyes get heavy
I've been swimming where reality and dreams meet
They say tragedy is dying in death but I don't believe,
Tragedy is never attempting to live, I don't believe
You should give only 30 percent of your mind
To find if the dreams you believe is something you can achieve
And the start only takes a start to begin.
I know what it's like to give it all and still never win
When your account is in red and car running fumes
Selling all of my things in these rooms
Just for the comfort of having a roof
But Ryan, what if it isn't enough and you lose?
I refuse, to put those thoughts in my mind.
You want all of those doubts?
Fine, what if I die of anaphylaxis tomorrow
What if I don't have a breath to borrow
And I just turn blue.
What if this stress breaks me down
And I forget all the things that make me live
That's just as much true as all of the positive
So why do they scream all these nightmares on the news
But never show all the dreams pounding through
They want you divided, they want you weak
Push down the kid trying to speak
Tell him he's ignorant for having childish morals
Attack his grammar, leaving sides in a quarrel.
Forget the issue for fighting, they bring in their own issue for fighting.
In a rich man's war, it's all the poor biting
Until the world is bloodstained, we scatter from lightning.
Why isn't anyone asking why we are fighting?
These flames are only going to drag us down.
Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 11:59 AM UTC
I was your little girl,
Who swells in hives at the thought of bees.
And I wonder-
If my skin grew blue upon entering the world,
with that umbilical cord noose
Around my throat.
Would you have differentiated
fear
from
love?
Each sting,
a red handprint
Serving as a childhood memory
on our grand search for the big dipper
not through imprints covering my skin
like speckled constellations.
Could your arms have choked love into me?
As a form of protection from the world,
Or the terrifying thoughts in my brain.
Should have been my mother bird.
A broken wing no cause for concern,
you take your feathers,
mending me.
I was your little girl,
Rolling in the grass,
barefoot and happy.
Dad talks about me like I’m a pastime-
He can’t escape.
How does a father speak about their child,
in the same way,
people express distaste for smoking?
Hope he doesn't
think of me,
Like a painful itch.
When he chain smokes
His time left in clouds.
But I feel the resentment
And his suggestion that I bring decay into his life.
My dreams are often hidden truths,
Nobody, in reality,
dares to speak.
Admitting what he’s too afraid to say.
Last night his words stinging like a bee,
Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 3:49 PM UTC
The stinging, the pain. Is it worth it? Would it be worth the pleasure for the enduring pain. Risk life for happiess?
Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM UTC
Eternally looking for a cure
Stuck in an obscure prognosis
This placebo is a double detour
To a self misdiagnosis.
Half of my heart is a bare bone grave
Whatever's left is in paralysis
A quarter of my mind cannot be saved
From your creeping psychosis.
You overdosed me in epinephrine
But you caused this anaphylaxis
You left me low in serotonin
Induced in a shotgun hypnosis.
You walked into my life like a virus
Spreading your love like a disease
Now I rot in this one-man circus
Forever chasing my catharsis.
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 at 4:18 AM UTC