Fooling Myself Poem by William Kofoed

A thousand needles
with sharp shining points
cutting harshly in
tender soft flesh

burning hot needles
searing as they go
piercing deeper in
with every painful step

ripping caring agony
muscles ripping apart
in agony collapsing
on ground so very hard

weakly grasping lifting
strength and vigor gone
lifting climbing upward
unsteady standing barely

burning hot pain searing
piercing through tender joints
gasping sharpinhaling
bright shining tears appear

foolish belief blooming
desperate hope within
somehow just imagining
none is actually real

Insane self deceiving
imagined feelings are
unknown reasons fulfilling
unreal everything is