Woes of Winter

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Such a terrible week, stuttering
through seemingly terminal coughing,
nights without end, or relief
as storms battered the windows, oh!
Thank God for the passage of time!
 
Such a miracle to feel healing,
seeping through my bones again
as the virus loses ground
to me.
 
Now, my lingering pharyngeal tickle
sparking gusts of expelling breath, and again
I rise in the dark, to lose my sleep in search of 
 
Relief.