Unforgiving Poem by Melissa Darsey

**These painful electric shocks that I've been feeling all day,
Why on God's green Earth, do they have to hurt so much?
It just makes me wish, for an hour they'd go away,
Because I truly despise, being in pain from the slightest touch.
**And I'm losing the strength in both of my legs too,
They used to be quite strong, but now they're very weak.
I just can't believe how much I've already gone through,
Plus this torturing pain, grows stronger as we speak.
**For this curse of Peripheral Neuropathy, which I now possess,
Never in my life, have I gone through so much before.
And not just only physical, now it's causing me mental stress,
I'm missing doing precious things which I cannot do anymore.
**So now I can admit and truthfully say,
That since I've had this condition, I can no longer call it living.
It makes me hurt in every single way,
So how can Peripheral Neuropathy, become so unforgiving?
©2022 Melissa Darsey