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Nursing student, poet and writer @ Unity College of Nursing Sciences Bwari
Abuja, Nigeria
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WHERE IS IT?
<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Where Is It?</strong></p><p><strong><em>Where is it?</em></strong></p><p>the doctor asks.</p><p>You have no answer.</p><p>How can you explain</p><p>the pain is subjective?</p><p>How can you explain</p><p>that it feels like your body is on fire</p><p>while you are numb at the same time?</p><p><br/></p><p><strong><em>Where is it?</em></strong></p><p>your best friend asks.</p><p>You won’t say</p><p>you feel it in your legs or shoulders.</p><p>You won’t say</p><p>it’s in your head or hands.</p><p>You cannot explain</p><p>its location or direction,</p><p>only that it is heavy,</p><p>hot,</p><p>weighty.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong><em>Where is it?</em></strong></p><p>your mother asks.</p><p>She looks at you pleading.</p><p>She wants to heal it.</p><p>How can you explain</p><p>it is there,</p><p>but also isn’t?</p><p>It needs stitching,</p><p>yet you do not believe</p><p>it can be fixed.</p><p>Even an X-ray, MRI, or CT scan</p><p>cannot see it,</p><p>but it is real.</p><p>You feel it.</p><p>Like a thousand needles piercing skin.</p><p>Like a vacuum stealing the air from your lungs.</p><p>Like an alarm constantly ringing</p><p>or rather,</p><p>banging against your skull.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong><em>Where is it?</em></strong></p><p>they all ask once more.</p><p>They know</p><p>or rather feel</p><p>that you are fractured.</p><p>No, worse:</p><p>broken.</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/file_000000008d587243aa866f05fcb7a202.png"/><strong><em></em></strong></p>
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