The ulcer
it just kind of grew
and the pain
strikingly
a tussle and a conflict
Yes again
Pugnacity
just mugging the soul
so brazen and so challenging
Stamping out a role
its there for the taking
so much inner guile
artful and so scheming
It has been for a while
it wept when it was active
affecting my sleep
with its dark hints of danger
And its calamitous creep
accursed and nasty
growing by the day
an insidious adventure
that adds to my decay.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.