.
Unrelenting pain
from having thought
too hard,
too looong,
treading mental water,
leaving skid marks
the backs of my eyeballs…
I know they are there…
I can feel them.
Or,
can the pain
be little leprechauns
doing pushups
on my eyeballs
and sinus’s ?
.
Light hurts.
Dark hurts.
OMgoodness.
The phone.
Someone called,
I left the phone
somewhere,
…it will
“beep, ….beep,……… beep“
til I get up
to see who called.
How can I,
who cannot
hear the phone ring,
continue to hear the
”beep, …. beep,………beep“
that gets louder and louder
like water torture’s
drip, …drip……PLOP !
if I ignore it ?
.
Being deaf has some
advantages…
until that high pitch
of the phone
disturbs my trying
to relieve
the brain pain.
(before cell phones,
it was sometimes
in the dead of night…
the in…cess….ant
“beep, beep, beep”
over, and over, and over,
of the snow plows
across the street at the school,
my reminder,
“school’s open,
get the kids up and out !“
.
….Sigh. Big Sigh.
With the memory
of back in the day.
.
The odd thing being,
I do L♥VE Roadrunner.
BEEP ! BEEP!
.
.
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(Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia) 1. Pertaining or relating to a phantasmagoria; of the nature of phantasmagoria; illusive; unreal.
Peace and best wishes in the future.
Daydreamer
Very humorous, for I never looked at migraines from such a perspective! Very well done!
siggiofmaine
Daydreamer,
thank you for your comment. Migraines aren’t funny when they are happening, but in retrospect,
sometimes there is a bit of irony or humor when one thinks about them as a whole. Some of my
friends and I sometimes find we do some very weird things to try and avoid them…like one carries
a brown paper bag with her to put over her head to block out the light !
Peace,
Siggi
Daydreamer
I agree about migraines not being so funny during, but carrying a paper bag and your perspective…very funny!
siggiofmaine
My friend says: The paper bag does the trick after many decades….dark space for any occasion I guess ☺ and she says, works for hyperventilating too ! At first I thought it was a joke, but she assures me it isn’t. (the paper bag for hyperventilating a trusted hyperventilating cure in these parts)
Susie Clevenger (@wingsobutterfly)
I hate migraines…I suffer from them too. Your words so describe it….hope they don’t come too often!!
Meenakshi Ganesh (Mixi)
Agony, irritation, helplessness, despair. Pulsating, throbbing pain. I could feel it all in your words. Sending hugs your way
Judy Roney
I was feeling the pain so much from your words and the last stanza cracked me up. Nice to have comic relief in the pain. I think writers must feel the pain you describe from time to time. My eyes get the worst of it. I’m waiting for special glasses to ward off writer’s brain pain. Great job of describing.
siggiofmaine
Laurie…
thank you for your comments. I DID start writing about migraines…but I can see it drifted afield …my particular hearing loss is low tones, the opposite of most people…very high sharp tones, I can hear especially well. My hearing loss is hereditary nerve deafness… my daughter and her youngest daughter also have severe hearing losses. Migraines, bright reflective lighting and high pitched noises are a painful combination for me.
Thanks for sharing…I enjoyed the challenge even tho I seem to have lost my way !
Peace.
Laurie Kolp
At first I thought you were writing about a migraine, but can see it’s the deafness… or perhaps the two interacting? I know when I get them noise gets to me… and I do have a bit of hearing loss from my Meniere’s Disease. Thanks for taking the challenge.