From Aches to Xanadu

Aches assault my muscles and

Bones causing me to moan and groan.

Could this be what everyone fears?

Diagnosis from a quick stripe test.

Each red line be be highlighted.

For it to be shown as positive.

Gathering strength to take a test,

High fevers strike, spiking my temps to new heights.

Icky taste in my mouth join to my private hell.

Jolts of piercing pain

Kills my desire to reach for my water.

Leave me be, I want to shout!

Maybe another 24 hours, then I will feel better.

No, it’s lasting longer!

Overwhelming pleas for sleep, yet to no anvil.

Pounding heart

Quivers too

Reaching for

Soup,

Tylenol, now Advil

Ultimate fever and pain busters to achieve

Victory which soon will be in my grasp

Waiting for few more days to return to my life of

Xanadu!

Yearning to be free of this

Zoonotic catastrophe spiraled into this virus we now call Covid.