through the mirror i tell myself

in gratitude to Iskandar Haggarty

when life gives you lyme again & my word many more

times again if it ever left at all you make lemon water

& you take your antibiotics or your antivirals or

your herbs or / & your supplements & you

detox your demons out & you dream

your nightmares away & you feel

bad & foggy & is this even

real before you feel better

even just a little because

it hides & masks &

lingers until you

catch up & hit it

off-guard & then you

get well & you will get

there believe me & others

before there is no other choice

because this is not only about your

struggling or my struggling there are many

fighters in need of validation in need of comfort

in need of help & to not feel lonely & abandoned

so you get well & heal & rise & tell them a legend of

a warrior on a battleground of in / out except this is no

legend this is for real & this is you & this will be them too.