trudge uphill, slide back, trudge up again, 2014 in 10 lines

The days go by in chaotic manner

Sleeping in shifts, hours at a time,

waking hungry at 4am, sleepy at 6.

Pain rides from my chest to my toes

and everywhere in between

I wait for narcotic scripts in the mail

and face the snow to go fill them.

Relief comes, but the mind still wanders

to things it should not.

Such is the nature of the beast.