There are clawed fingers
Which scratches the core of the heart of loving souls
Plucking out happiness and planting sadness
Leaving the future bleak and eyes red
II
They come in their horrid varieties
Slow or aggressive
And take over the senses in helpless lenses
Take over muscles in fearful pulls
Take over shame with spittle so lame
Forcing teeth to bite their bosom friend; tongue
Contorting bodies until their arrests end
To the shame of the innocent model
III
Not contagious they say
But burns out friendships like fires in dry hay
Able to be handled
But squeezes out young brains like water in a towel
Not a spirit
But harms hearts like the harmattan’s touch on fertile trees
Those blessed not to have witnessed might comfortably chuckle but
Dear epilepsy, you are one of death’s most vile agent
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © March 26, 2018
Mum Cee 
7 replies on “JERKS OF HEARTBREAK”
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am sending you & your son my best thoughts that he grows out of them too, amoafowaa ❤
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Thank you Da-Al. Blessings to you.
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My brother Stephen had epilepsy as a teen and in his 20s. Fortunately he had his last Grand mal Seizure many years ago. In his specific case he grew out of the disease.
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Thank God. It is such a horrible disorder.
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Yes it was scary to see him having a seizure. The last time he was in the hospital. Doctors thought he had a heart attack but through monitoring and observation found that he had a seizure.
Glad those days are over.
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Hmmm. Thank God for his life. Praying my son grows out of his.
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