Doubled Over

Today was one of those days.
I should have stayed home
Because my head is pounding
And fire keeps smothering me.
First, it grabs my arm
And squeezes far too tight.
Then it clutches at my waist
Pressing it's seething fingers
In between my ribs.
It's hard to live your life
Doubled over.

I wrote this in high school when a had the worst migraine I'd had in months and I was having intense back and abdominal pain. Basically, that day sucked. I used to deal with days like this on an almost constant basis. I'm posting it today, because I have had a migraine all day, and it hasn't really gotten any better.

Like the Sun

The day I met you changed my life for good,
And since then, nothing's ever been the same.
My world fell into place. I knew it would,
But not that you would be the one to blame.
It's true that other people can allure,
But they don't know what true love even means,
Since all too often, we are immature,
And focus on the temporal it seems.
I cannot live my life indifferent now,
Because it's cold and worthless without you.
I never thought that you would show me how
To find, through all this darkness, what is true.
I never dreamed that you would be the one.
Now, I revolve around you like the sun.

I wrote this English sonnet for my British Literature class in high school. I'm normally ecstatic about a chance to get graded for poetry, but I am REALLY not a fan of iambic pentameter.