Purge

 








Sudden onset. A fever

Raging and coursing through my body

A cure; the medicine

A blank sheet of paper, a pen

The words, seeping through my glands

Coming through, awakening. I’m covered

In ink and tears

And then, a poem

Exhaustion

The toiled work from deep within my soul. 

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