Here and Now

The Itch Of Madness It was as if the pain of remembering was not enough moments replayed in full color revisited in my sleep my mind riddled with so many bullet holes and yet the blood continued to coarse through my veins taunting me as it traveled away from my pulsing heart I began to claw at my skin in the night The winter brought an ache to my bones each step becoming a broken reminder Trying to sink into the numbness of hunger the emptiness echoing into the silence Waiting to shrink...to disappear into a quiet place but every sound was amplified, swallowed in noise A cacophony of voices, each one fighting to be heard I couldn't help but scratch the itch of madness watching as my body was consumed in flames trapped beneath burning flesh as if the pain of remembering was not enough Angela Minard 2013©

    This is just a quick update since my last post. I do not have cancer! Yippeee!!!! The MRI showed a cyst in my hip joint, thinning cartilage, and arthritis. I'm now on arthritis meds, and will be getting a steroid injection into my hip on Monday. In the future, the hip will need to be replaced, but I'm not going to worry about that right now. I'm beginning to have less pain, and the steroid is suppossed to really help. Moving on!