Month: February 2013

Posted on in creative writing, emotions, illness, lupus, poems

One day in February

Remembering February 21 2001….

One day in February I took the train south

Le Havre-Paris

Paris –Bordeaux.

Time to swap students

And marking

For chatting and chilling.

One day in February

I stepped off the train

And the arms of a friend wrapped round me

As the city I loved held me close.

Next day in February I woke to sunshine

And shaking

As I staggered

To the shower room

Legs folded

And I fell

To the floor.

That day in February I realised

All

Was not

Well

As I tried to stand

Sweat soaked and spinning.

That day in February I flew home

For treatment

To get better

And return.

Each year in February

As I wake

At home

I remember

One day in February

I took the train south…©