the color orange, and other things twisted by chronic illness

relativity

on a scale of 1 to 10...

it's a phrase

i hear often.

i get why.

pain is

an indescribable mess.

it's a

tangled

jumbled

ball of rope

that ensnares me

strangles me

in a way

numbers will never

be able to describe.

my 4

may be your 8.

it is

impossible to know.

pain is relative.

it depends

on tolerance.

numbers will never

tell you

how the ropes

holding me back

feel.