Contaminated

I feel contaminated

Like a leper

Diseased and contagious

My thought fester

From the inside

Unseen at first

But taking form

On my exterior

For all to see;

My emanciated skeletal frame

My gaunt cheeks

Brow furrowed with worry

Tense shoulders

Anxious demeanour.

I want to disappear

To hide away

In a dark secluded cave

To burrow deep into a hole

Or simply

Pull my bedcovers over my head

And remove myself

From sight;

To sink into numbness

Succumb to darkness

And distance myself

From the world.