It started with a sniffle

​It started with a sniffle

Then a little cough

Snuffles on my pillows

I didn’t give a toss

Suddenly I seemed much warmer

Then chills, up and down my spine

My nose started dripping

My mind was in decline

Then the mucus fairy

Waved her little wand

My chest filled up with mucus

Like filling up a pond

It seems my major airways

Had become a water trap

I started coughing noisily

Couldn’t shift the crap

I found I couldn’t lay down

And even sitting up

My chest made this weird music

Like screech, whistle, dup dup.

My sniffle is a water fall

My cough spasmodic gunk

I feel pretty miserable

I look more goth than punk

I wonder how to tempt

That sweet fairy into the light

I just would like to catch her

Share some of my delight!!