Author's Note: Eighth in the series. Does it feel like this to you when you ache?

On the Crumbling Crag of Doubt
A Poetry Series

Number Eight:

Ache

This is how to
Describe
The pull I feel
Inside
The tug that takes
Hold
Deep within the
Folds
Of my splayed rib
Cage
A mid-turn stuck
Page
Torn out when not
Aware
And all I do
Is stare
Unable to
Think
My chest falling
Into
My stomach where
It pools
This is how I
Describe
What it means to
Survive

~August 2003, RMKS

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