"Head Above Water" - Avril Lavigne

Poem:

I am not sick,

But I am not well

I'm trapped in my body

A prison that's Hell

It's fighting against me

A battle each day

It just wants to end me

But I won't go away

The pain unlike any

You could ever imagine

If I am the princess

My body's the dragon

Lighting me up

From my hair to my toes

Each nerve ending afire

And peace is a ghost

Chronic illness a war

You can't understand

In life's game of poker

This is the hand

Most people would fold on

And just walk away

But for me the deck's stacked

There's no choice but to play

Someday I'll lose

I already know

I'll refuse to go quietly

When it's my time to go

For I am a warrior

And this is my fight

I'll never go quietly

Into that good night.

~ Poem by Mandy Kocsis©2020 ~

From "Soul Survivor"