From somewhere deep within me,
a rogue current pushed me off a ledge
I did not know was there.
I fall,
twisting and turning,
into a dark chasm.
When I awoke
the sun shone in my face
I knew not what had happened.
~~~~~
The Doctor said ‘you have epilepsy’
What more was said, I did not know.
The ledge remained
a chasm not always avoided
learning to walk around it
a learning curve not in any curriculum.
Pills - an easy piece of the puzzle
Lessons for living with epilepsy
gathered slowly and steadily
while moving forward against
layers of historical baggage
trying to force secrecy upon me
and those like me.
The chasm of active epilepsy
has not opened for a long time.
Talking about the chasm has taken
the mystery and fear away,
now I know many things.
“Secrecy involves a tension which, at the
moment of revelation, finds it’s release.”
~ George Simmel
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