Monday, July 23, 2018

Ménière’s Disease (A Poem)

Ménière Disease (a poem)

Why me? Why not me?
Maybe it’s my destiny

Spinning around and around
Bounties abound

Ringing, deafness, feeling drunk, fatigued and shattered
It’s as if my life hasn’t mattered

Never knowing when an attack will hit
I suffer from anxiety a bit

The eventual outcome is deafness and walking like a drunk
People still think it’s all bunk.

No wonder depression can engulf me
It’s hard for others to take seriously

One day I’m fine
The next I can’t walk a line

Life with Ménière’s
Affects more than my ears

If you see me in a bind
Won’t you please be kind

-Rita L Trushaw

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