Cephalalgia

Cephalalgia

A violent tingling begins,
pulsing and crashing through my veins.
An insane amount of affliction,
that I find quite hard to explain.

Behind the eye, down the bridge,
and descending straight into my teeth.
Shattering all train of thought,
a tremendous pounding dwells beneath.

Shutting up my senses,
simply too sick to speak.
A speechless tongue is rewarding,
when the body's grown so weak.

My skull is screaming silently,
as I wait for the next release.
Desperately scratching at my scalp,
this pain will never cease.

Intensity rises, pressure builds,
got no more time to kill.
Quick, I'm losing equilibrium,
the room refuses to stand still.

Two tiny white fellows,
have clearly caused cloudy perceptions.
They promised to take me to heaven, you see...
and what a dismal deception.

At the height of the high,
dreams seem so far away.
Numb limbs whisper to me,
as I feel my mind sway.

The world's biggest nuisance,
of unkindly mass proportions,
drowns me deep in drowsy dizziness,
while crying out many distortions.

The throbbing finally decides to subside,
and turns into slow tidal waves.
An ocean of hell festering in my brain,
doesn't give me the break my head craves.

So, please turn off the lights,
and eliminate all sound,
because never have I felt before,
a nightmare this profound.

It lives and dies in the temple,
every day and every night.
It's resurrection is old news to me,
but what's always fresh is the fright.

Bringing me down, wringing me out,
ol' grey matter has no say.
But the force just keeps on truckin',
and there it will always stay.

Neurologically raped with an invisible razor,
day in and day out.
Like a leech, it's sucked me dry of energy,
and brought forth a painful drought.

Stabbing me, shoving me,
hating me, loving me,
choking me, provoking me,
breaking me, shaking me,
waking me, taking me...

A violent tingling begins,
pulsing and crashing through my veins.
What is this, you ask?
...just a simple migraine.



(Originally posted on April 15, 2008, @ darkalchemystudios.deviantart.com)

© Caitlin Blair Cogar