The suddenness of illness
Knocks on the door
Catching the body
Exposed and unprepared
Worthlessness
Descends on the weakened human frame
Making it discovered
The ephemerality of a good health
Immune system religiously diminished
Unconvalescent bacterial and microbial agents
The probable unscrupulous attackers
Body’s parts aching with absurdity
Begetting an immense fatigue
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That forces the tissues and muscles
To ask for mercy
A few rebellious cells fighting bravely still
But intoxicated they are all becoming
By the enigmical disease that is wiggling
Through the body
Flashes of healthier days sprouting in the mind
Splashed unfortunately
By the abyssmality of the aches
That are bringing the body to its knees
This will pass the body says
This will pass
Just hang on the body says
Just hang on
