how to explain…

 

illness is a war

illness is a thief

24 hours each day

7 days each week

no vacations

no holidays

no weekends

no breaks

no leaving your war

at the door

 

i lack weapons

i once had

and are necessary

to fight

to cope

with war

 

because that's war

you fight

you cope

and all the while

you must figure out

how to live

because that's war

 

but then there's all

the many

problems

it brings

in addition

to the illness

and all the many

things

it takes

the thief

the war

 

and still

yet

there's all the many

trials and tribulations

the ones

that life itself

brings to us all

and takes from us all

beside the theft

beside the war

of illness

 

illness does not care

that i may live to make music

and make music to live

to learn love

spread life

make something happen

when at 5:16 in the morning

illness brings me to the bathroom

with nausea

to vomit

 

how do i make music

how do i make anything

when it's all i can do

to make it stop

stealing from me

waging war on me

 

illness does not care

because illness is a war

because illness is a thie