Paralysis

I didn’t imagine it after all she said

Lying on her hospital bed

A spinal injury

Not from some catastrophic fall

But her immune system

Had gone all Battlestar Galactica

Attacking her spinal-chord

As if Cylons had landed

Space invaders

Twelve years old

Her life put on hold

I didn’t imagine it after all she said

Lying on her hospital bed

I often wonder what she would be doing

Right now

If this rare illness hadn’t reared its

Ugly head

Then I push it down because

What’s the use of

What ifs

When we are living in

The here and now’s

I didn’t imagine it after all mum

It wasn’t all in my head

Like the doctors and nurses said

When the paralysis spread

And I couldn’t move my right leg