Worrying

My

Eyes

Weeping

Silent

Dry

Tears.

My

Heart

Aching

Pounding

Heavily

Beating.

My

Head

Cracking

Breaking

Hammer

Pounding.

ME

When

Will

She

Be

Well?

Anon, 2019

[Father of daughter with Myalgic encephalomyelitis]

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