The Suffering of ME & MCS

This is a front view portrait of a woman holding her fingers to her temples, trying to cope with severe head pain

Head pain.

Linda Crowhurst

People simply 
do not want to know
that their noise assaults me
that their prefumes 
poisons me
that conversation 
is simply beyond me
that I am demolished 
by their presence
and that these things
do not just inconvenience me
but actually threaten my health
and push me down
to new levels of
 tormented existence
long after
they 
have 
gone.