The Onset

It is

The simple things

Which we take

For granted.

Like

Holding a pen/pencil

To write.

Or

Using utensils

When eating

A meal.

Becomes

A major task

Now filled

With painful challenges.

As

Your hand burns

With arthritic pain

And swelling.

Restricting

The quality of life

Previously enjoyed

With total abandonment.

Replacing it

With anger

And frustration

At the body's

Betrayal.

Knowing

Things will

Only get worse

Never better.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this runs rampant in our family...so i hear this poem...

with time, the betrayal will come.

[therisa]

Thank you, Jacob, for reading this poem and sharing with me. This weekend was, a really bad one, for the flare-ups.